[CraftingGrandma]

Here's what has happened. My calibre folder got deleted and I re-installed it and then proceeded to transfer all my books back from my sony to re-make it.

A good chunk of my books transferred over fine. The rest do not have the check mark that they are on the device. Their author and file name and covers tags and series did not copy with them and my calibre does not think they are the same file. Basically I think (and I may be using the wrong word here so please bear with me, but I tried to look around for the names of stuff to help you people help me) the meta data did not copy.

This old lady did some looking around in attempts to solve this problem myself and maybe learn something (and save some embarrassment) and thought I found the answer with the match book to library by right clicking on the books. It would only do one at a time, I figured slow was my punishment for deleting my folder and would just spend the time doing it until I noticed it changed the author on my sony to the messed up author from my calibre library.

So now that I am here asking for help I figured I would ask two things of you.

First, how do I make it copy the meta data (I hope that is the right word) covers, series, tags for a book in my calibre match the ones on my sony as opposed to my sony being matched to the calibre?

Second, is there a way to make it copy all of that stuff right from the start when I transfer books from my sony to my calibre so I do not have to match the books one by one?