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aceflor · 11-11-2014, 03:39 AM

Ok, feeling much better right now. Here for anyone else in my case:

1. Try to restore
2. If restore does not work (it did not for me), try to rename the metadata.db
3. If that does not work (it did not for me), you will have to re-add your books manually
4. To quicken things a bit and not loose the info packed in the various .opf, I zipped books by date, 10 to 20 per zip, and added them using the "add zip" function in Calibre. THAT WORKS.

I am now recovering the library with almost all my books back (some very recent ones seemed problematic and would not zip, which might have been the beginning of the whole story), with their metadata, tags, series, shelves, and for me very important: original date instead of today's date. I am almost done.

I now only need to secure everything on an external drive and find what exactly the problem with those books which would not zip is.

Thanks for every advice, I know I should backup more often, but I live in 3 different countries and keep flying back and forth between those 3 and lately the US, which makes backup difficult and of course the Cloud very attractive.

11-11-2014, 03:39 AM	#12
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	Ok, feeling much better right now. Here for anyone else in my case: 1. Try to restore 2. If restore does not work (it did not for me), try to rename the metadata.db 3. If that does not work (it did not for me), you will have to re-add your books manually 4. To quicken things a bit and not loose the info packed in the various .opf, I zipped books by date, 10 to 20 per zip, and added them using the "add zip" function in Calibre. THAT WORKS. I am now recovering the library with almost all my books back (some very recent ones seemed problematic and would not zip, which might have been the beginning of the whole story), with their metadata, tags, series, shelves, and for me very important: original date instead of today's date. I am almost done. I now only need to secure everything on an external drive and find what exactly the problem with those books which would not zip is. Thanks for every advice, I know I should backup more often, but I live in 3 different countries and keep flying back and forth between those 3 and lately the US, which makes backup difficult and of course the Cloud very attractive. Last edited by aceflor; 11-11-2014 at 03:43 AM.