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Yusufbodrum · 07-31-2015, 06:51 AM

Hi.

I am new to this forum and would appreciate help with following issue:

In 2013 we discovered Calibre and populated it with books, brochures, seacharts, movies etc.

It served very well, however, we did not use Calibre over a year.

When I attempted to reuse it recently the installed software failed to start (Version 0.9.41.9). I shifted the library folder with the database file to another computer and installed there Calibre from scratch (Version 2.33). The software recognized the library folder, but claimed a corrupted database. I attempted to restore the database, but it failed.

Thereupon I attempted to import my old library with the "Add Book" side arrow option. This worked out very well, but left out a good number of documents - without any message.

I established, that it would fail to add documents in *.jpg or *.vob, *.csv for example. I researched and seem to understand that these are no valid formats (any longer?) for Calibre.

While I may have stretched Calibre by also entrusting it with movies and jpg brochures, this used to work in Version 0.9.41.9 perfectly...

Will Calibre not work for these formats any longer?

I would welcome any hint how to return to the satisfactory state in 2014 and not loose quite some work.

Cheers.

07-31-2015, 06:51 AM	#1
Yusufbodrum Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Sony Vaio	Restoring Database Hi. I am new to this forum and would appreciate help with following issue: In 2013 we discovered Calibre and populated it with books, brochures, seacharts, movies etc. It served very well, however, we did not use Calibre over a year. When I attempted to reuse it recently the installed software failed to start (Version 0.9.41.9). I shifted the library folder with the database file to another computer and installed there Calibre from scratch (Version 2.33). The software recognized the library folder, but claimed a corrupted database. I attempted to restore the database, but it failed. Thereupon I attempted to import my old library with the "Add Book" side arrow option. This worked out very well, but left out a good number of documents - without any message. I established, that it would fail to add documents in .jpg or .vob, *.csv for example. I researched and seem to understand that these are no valid formats (any longer?) for Calibre. While I may have stretched Calibre by also entrusting it with movies and jpg brochures, this used to work in Version 0.9.41.9 perfectly... Will Calibre not work for these formats any longer? I would welcome any hint how to return to the satisfactory state in 2014 and not loose quite some work. Cheers.