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Originally Posted by automatthew
Hello Everyone,
So, I just updated Calibre to 2.83, and on restarting I see that the entire library is gone. I have gone here:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...libre-is-blank
But it does not appear to address the issue I'm facing. I had more than 10,000 books in my library, and the "Calibre Library" folder, which previously contained hundreds of folders and was several gigabytes in size, is now empty except for metadata.db etc.
If I do a search for all epub files on my hard drive, it returns nothing. My books are gone. |
What you describe has nothing to do with running a calibre update. If you have searched your drive and have been unable to find any epubs then it would seem that your library is on a different drive than the one you are searching. Is it possible you previously were using the calibre portable version on an external USB drive or could your library be on a different local drive?
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Originally Posted by automatthew
I am pretty certain that I am SOL, but I would like to know what went wrong
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Books / folders being deleted en mass from your device has absolutely nothing to do with running a calibre update. Also failing hard drives are rarely this surgical. Have you looked in the trash for your library's folder? Is it possible you moved the library during a backup instead of syncing/copying a library during a backup? Could a sync program be set for two way update and cleared the library? Is it possible your library has always been on a different drive than the one you searched? Bottom line is only you can tell us how this happened.
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Originally Posted by automatthew
and how I can stop it from happening in the future.
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You can protect yourself in the future by having a good backup of your calibre library.