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Old 08-25-2014, 04:49 PM   #12
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But that said, I would advise you backup your libraries and config data - just in case Sod's (Murphy's) Law comes to the fore.
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I've lost all my extra plugins though so i'll gradually load those again. I thought that might happen.

Still good practice in case I even replace my PC.
@Josieb1 - For future reference and for the benefit of others

If you had backed up the calibre config(uration) data you could have restored all your settings including plugins.

The reason why you lost your config data is almost certainly due to the use of the Revo uninstaller, which IMO can be far too aggressive.

It's possible that not being able to uninstall calibre was a result of doing a Windows Restore. Or if you ran one of the 3rd party "system cleanup" tools then it was probably the culprit, IMO such tools create more problems than they solve.

I suggest a backup of calibre configuration data be folded into the process you have for backing up the calibre libraries. Then you'll be able to restore calibre in its entirety. Its easy enough to do as it's all in the folder that Preferences->Miscellaneous->Open calibre configuration directory opens.

One way of stopping things like Revo from trashing the config data is to relocate it away from the %APPDATA%, %USERPROFILE% etc locations via the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY environment variable.

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