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Originally Posted by millan
I cannot thank you enough for all the guidance you have given me
Here's what I have to do I think:
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1) select one entry at a time - and every entry to follow) in the calibre book interface
2)Click edit metadata
3) add a format to this book - locate the book and add it
4) add the cover - locate the cover and add it
it works
the I delete the second folder which contents already copied (from the step 3 and 4) to the folder where the opf is
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I guess there's no faster way of doing it since I do not want to loose the metadata
is there ?
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That isn't the way I suggested you do it, but if it works for you then fine.
What I suggested is that you create a new empty library. You then combine the contents of the 3500 or so folders together so that the book file(s), the cover, and the metadata.opf for one book are in the same folder. In the newly-created library you use the "Add ... One book per directory" to add the book and its metadata in one step. If you make a folder containing these combined folders then you can add that "super-folder" (again, one book per directory) to add all the books in the subfolders in one step.
But to say again, at this point the best thing for you to do is what you know how to do and what works for you.