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Originally Posted by scarlettruin
I ran the 'missing files' search. It came back with two books - one looked normal but I deleted it anyway. The other came up as 'error - no title in metadata', and when i clicked on it, there was no metadata at all. It was just saved in the calibre folder as 'error'. I deleted it too, but strangely enough when it was deleting them, it came up at 4 files that were being deleted. Is there any way of finding out what the 'error' book is in my calibre library?
Thanks again!
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First, can you now connect?
From the logs I expected 3 "error" books. I missed the fourth. My eyes aren't what they used to be.
Unfortunately there is no way to know which books were corrupted. The corruption destroyed all the metadata, including the title. You can connect as a wireless device then look in calibre at which books are not "On Device", but of course that depends on you knowing what should be on the device. While connected, the search "ondevice:false" in the library view will list all books that aren't on the device.
You are probably wondering how this happened. We have seen it around 3 or 4 times in the past. Our theory is that incomplete metadata gets into the database because of a crash or a "scan for new books", then that incomplete metadata is corrupted by a database upgrade when upgrading CC. I found one way that this scenario could happen and fixed it. In any event, it happens extremely rarely. You shouldn't see it again. (knock wood)