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Old 09-09-2014, 09:19 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by rd4407 View Post
Now, a couple of days later, I replaced the last "dummy" entry with a new real item, and selecting the last item worked.
@rd4407 - I venture to suggest that adding that dummy value caused calibre to rewrite your custom column to its Preferences custom-columns table row in metadata.db, and in so doing it 'fixed' the 'corrupt' value. I think its a BLOB hence , hard to debug unless your name is Kovid Goyal

Thanks for letting us know the problem is solved.

BR

Last edited by BetterRed; 09-10-2014 at 04:42 AM. Reason: fix errors as per chaley's following post
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