Well,
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Originally Posted by Ballaterboy
Initially Calibre didn't pick up my libraries (I have a few) So I ran Library Maintenance, / Restore Database
However it has still lumped what books it has into one Library and not cataloged into alll the libraries I had originally set up Also there are a number of books and libraries that it hasent copied at all .. Presumable there are conflicts in the setup Dont know what to do now.
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Clearly you didn't read the part of the FAQ that theducks linked, or you would know that calibre doesn't "pick up" the libraries, you have to add them from the:
Library --> Switch/Create Library
dialog.
And instead you ran Restore Database, the purpose of which is to rebuild the root per-library metadata.db file, which is completely orthogonal to your purposes.
So... to recap the FAQ:
On your old computer, you should have had one or more folders named with the name of your library/libraries.
Each one contains a bunch of folders for the various authors of books in the library, plus a metadata.db file and a metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file.
Each of those library folders must be copied
vebatim to a new folder on the new computer (do not touch the contents unless you know what you're doing. If you don't know whether that applies to you, you don't know what you're doing).
Yes, people have copied only parts of their library before, and then were surprised when it didn't work.
Do not, under any circumstances, merge the folder with another folder, especially if you think you will be clever and merge it with the new "Calibre Library" folder on the new computer. Yes, people have done that before, too... and the "it didn't work" factor from above increased, not geometrically, but
exponentially.
Add each of those libraries using the Switch/Create Library dialog.
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If these instructions didn't work, it is because you didn't follow them correctly. If you find yourself needing to run database maintenance tasks, it is because you didn't follow the directions correctly (or your library was broken when you were still using the old computer).