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Hi,

When I run Library Maintenance/Check Database on my book collection, I get a large number of extra authors and extra titles. All of them seem to have been at one time maintained by Calibre, but somehow got lost. Unfortunately, the only way to 'repair' this problem that Calibre offers is to delete them, which is not exactly helpful.

I have found a rather cumbersome way to fix the extra authors by locating them one by one in the Calibre folder, moving them to a separate folder, and importing them again in Calibre. That may leave me with duplicates, which are also a pain to remove, but that's a separate subject, and at least they're in the database again.

However, repairing extra titles in the same way is simply too cumbersome to be practical. I have a few hundred of them. The error message doesn't specify the author, so would have to guess that, or I would need to search for a directory with the correct Calibre sequence number, or ...

The frustrating thing is that it seems to me that it wouldn't take much effort for Calibre to be much more helpful. Why can't it just add those extra authors and titles to the database again? Or at least why can't it just move the extra authors and titles to an external directory, so that they can be imported again?

One dirty trick I've considered is to clear the Trash, let Calibre delete the extra authors and titles, and then import them again from the Trash, perhaps after moving to a non-Trash folder. It may work, but it doesn't seem to be a very safe way to solve this.

So, how realistic is my request for more help from Calibre? Am I missing a way to solve this with the current program?

Thanks in advance for any hints!