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Old 03-09-2015, 08:20 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by snoopyeab View Post
Ok, thanks, this works.
Now I'm trying the following: I have these two instances of calibre. By using Winmerge I've pretty much made them equal, just a few loose ends. Also the metadata is not exactly the same in both.
I want to create a new library which is a complete copy of instance nr1 ( This is already done) and now I'm copying nr 2 into this one in batches. This also works fine. Now I use Find duplicates, also fine, but now the problem: how do I simply delete duplicates without having to select each one of them? The libraries are 9500 in size otherwise I wouldn't mind. Again, I'm probably overlooking an obvious action, but in Find Duplicates it starts with one duplicate pair selected. Also can I select which instance to keep and which one to delete?
This is hazardous to your library's health. Calibre does not like you "going under it's skirts" so to speak. If you modify a library using a file system level tool like winmerge you will be screwing up the Calibre database.

It is best to treat the calibre library file structure as hands off... like it was one large file that you can't touch the individual parts of. This will keep from breaking it.

If you are updating two calibre libraries that are essentially the same books in different locations you will run into some problems with which books in which library are "most up to date".
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