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Old 09-22-2015, 05:00 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by KristaG View Post
I opened Calibre this morning, and all my book files were gone! I have no idea what happened to them, the database is EMPTY.
@KristaG - can you elaborate on this - ie what do you mean by an empty database?

Technically the database is the 'metadata.db' file in the library folder - is it there?

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Originally Posted by KristaG View Post
I checked my Calibre Documents folder, and there are NO book files in it.
Are there any author folders and within them any book folders. If there are then what files are present in the book folders?

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Originally Posted by KristaG View Post
I don't see a tool within Calibre to recall deleted files, and I had recently emptied my Trash too, so that's a bust.
There isn't one

When a book is 'Removed' calibre moves book folder to a randomly named temporary outer folder and sends that to Trash, so a restore from Trash must be done manually - if it hasn't been emptied meanwhile.

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Originally Posted by KristaG View Post
I back up my computer regularly, but I've added books since my last backup, is there any way to retrieve those?
Not unless you've kept a copy elsewhere

FWIW - I keep everything I add to calibre in their original locations until I do my weekly off site backup. Then I delete them, by which time I have 3 copies in one in the calibre library and on its daily and weekly backups.

What operating system and version do you use and which version of calibre ?

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