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Originally Posted by chantw0968
Hi,
I wanted to move Calibre library to another computer. I backed up my library on an external hard drive. Than I installed Calibre on the new computer. I than went to import export and tried to import the library. I selected a location and when it finished I got an error. The folder is full of books but calibre isn't recognizing so I uninstalled it and deleted everything but even the welcome book is gone and now I have nothing. How do i get the books over. TIA
update: I changed the location of the folder and all the files got in Calibre but the covers were gone
Also, I am running windows 10 if that means anything. Thank you
This is the error that I get when I try to import the books:
calibre, version 2.51.0
ERROR: Failed: Failed to import data. Click "Show Details" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\exim.py", line 137, in run_action
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\exim.py", line 331, in import_data
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 2166, in import_library
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1075, in update_path
File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1514, in update_path
File "os.py", line 150, in makedirs
File "os.py", line 157, in makedirs
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid: u'C:\\Users\\dbrid\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Calibre Library 1\\Con'
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Forget (Calibre) IMPORT
This is one of the few cases where under the skirts operation can be carefully performed
All you had to do was COPY the entire OLD Library folder CONTENTS
and TOTALLY
replace the NEW (empty Library) folder contents
DO NOT MIX two Libraries together, even if 1 is broken that folder must be empty. If it is not, Delete the contents (usually, 2 files), they will be replaced by the Library matching, good versions