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japeshk · 04-12-2014, 12:22 AM

Hi there,

This is my first post, so I'd like to start by thanking Kovid Goyal for developing such an excellent piece of software

So, for some unknown reason, my entire Calibre library vanished a week ago. It is just stored on the main harddrive of a networked iMac, no NAS or external HDD, etc. I didn't see anything happen that would have caused it to become corrupted and I haven't moved or altered the library folder in any way, so I am stumped as to what happened to it. However, it's not the end of the world as I have all of my ebooks and Metadata stored on my Nexus 7 along with Calibre Companion.

However, I have tried to reimport all of the books using the 'Device view' and 'Add to Library' function. Although all of the files are now back in the 'Library View' window on the iMac, they have been stripped of all their metadata. Is there a way to import the library from the Nexus 7 and retain all of the metadata? I have hunted around but most of what I am reading on forums seems to suggest that it should be doing this automatically!

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions.

04-12-2014, 12:22 AM	#1
japeshk Nameless Being	Importing library from Nexus 7, no metadata Hi there, This is my first post, so I'd like to start by thanking Kovid Goyal for developing such an excellent piece of software So, for some unknown reason, my entire Calibre library vanished a week ago. It is just stored on the main harddrive of a networked iMac, no NAS or external HDD, etc. I didn't see anything happen that would have caused it to become corrupted and I haven't moved or altered the library folder in any way, so I am stumped as to what happened to it. However, it's not the end of the world as I have all of my ebooks and Metadata stored on my Nexus 7 along with Calibre Companion. However, I have tried to reimport all of the books using the 'Device view' and 'Add to Library' function. Although all of the files are now back in the 'Library View' window on the iMac, they have been stripped of all their metadata. Is there a way to import the library from the Nexus 7 and retain all of the metadata? I have hunted around but most of what I am reading on forums seems to suggest that it should be doing this automatically! Many thanks in advance for your suggestions.