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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Maybe someone accidentally connected to the Library folder in the Connect/Share->connect to folder. I've no idea what would happen if one did that - I shall go away and do it, after I do a backup  BR |
Well if you do that then you'll end up with a .driveinfo.calibre and a .metadata.calibre library in your library folder. See first attachment.
Then if you send some books to that folder you'll end up with a bit of shambles see second attachment. The backup is on the left, the operational library is on the right
So I'm postulating that the OP made a genuine usage mistake rather than breaking the 'golden rule'.
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madelonw - does the above make any sense, might you have inadvertently selected your library folder in a
Connect/Share->connect to library. I used a Test library, the 9 books I sent to the Connected folder disappeared from the Library, as can be seen in the second attachment there are less author folders on the right than there are on the left.
IMO you need to build a new library by importing books from the 'broken' one - but I'm unsure of the best way to do that such that your metadata is retained. If the library copies have current metadata embedded - eg via Polish, Modify or Embed then its easy to set up the Add options to extract metadata from the books, if not then ideally you would want to get the metadata from the opf files, I don't know how to do that.
Oh, to retain your custom columns in the new library, you should be able to created the new library based on the existing one.
Aside : maybe there should be a warning - "Do you really want to connect to this library folder" ie a folder with a metadata.db.
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