Thread: calibre now crashes on startup - help
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Old 02-01-2018, 09:34 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
How? It may help others who run up against the same problem.

The presence of the 'metadata_pre_restore.db' file indicates that you ran a Restore database at some time, from the Library Manager or the calibredb command.

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I don't remember doing so, but I suppose anything is possible. Chris runs a backup on my calibre library every 24 hours (for just such eventualities as these) so we replaced the metadata.db file with the one from the backup and all is well.
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