[Sami]

So yesterday my harddrive seemed to take issue with polishing too many books after downloading new covers and in the process killed my metadata.db and calibre install.

Luckily I'm sometimes smarter than I look and I have a full working backup of my books with updated metadata (excluding those new covers) and a copy of my calibre prefs folder.

So far I've uninstalled calibre and installed a fresh copy, now what comes next?

Switch out the prefs folder, install new copies of my plugins, rebuild the library?

I'd like to get it back to what I had custom columns and all as much as possible but not sure the order of things to get there.