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Old 09-09-2016, 09:52 AM   #8
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by excaliber View Post
My mistake was that I choose this option and I didn't have a backup. But I think is critical to show a message to the user that Calibre is about to overwrite the files in the configuration directory. I hope the developers do something about that.
It was probably thought that that would be intuitive -- since the Export/Import dialog is meant to fully backup and restore all your settings from one computer to another.

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My intention was to merge the two libraries from A and B on B and it' s still not entirely clear to me how to do it...
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Did you transfer the books via Save-to-Disk and re-import, or via Import/Export dialog?
^^ That was the correct way, and the wrong way, respectively.
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