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Old 07-20-2017, 10:50 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Mark Lee View Post
"calibre, version 3.4.0
ERROR: Cannot export/import: You are running calibre portable, all calibre data is already in the calibre portable folder. Export/import is unavailable."
The export/import feature has a very specific purpose - to facilitate moving all calibre data (config and libraries) from one computer to another.

Getting a CSV for a table from DB Browser for SQLLite or SQLite Expert is pretty simple and I'm sure the same would be true for SQLite Spy. And most importantly the names calibre uses for tables etc are easy to comprehend (e.g. authors, books, tags etc).

FX to get a CSV of Tags from DB Browser for SQLLite, Open a metadata.db file in a calibre library folder, and then use File->Export->Table(s) as CSV :

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