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Aussiecubs · 03-25-2018, 01:18 AM

Hi BetterRed, Thank you for your advice which has pointed me in the right direction. When you suggested to the rename the library I finally worked out that I had two libraries even though I was working on the assumption I only had the one, called Calibre. As part of the process of moving my collection to a new drive I had somehow or other moved the original library into D:\Calibre and then copied a second version of it into D:\Calibre\Calibre. I finished up with double the physical amount of books eg: 9800 files for a collection of only 1,500 books.

I fixed it by exporting my Library to a new directory and then imported it back in to a fresh empty directory with a different name.

I now have on library with 1,500 books and only 3,300 files.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers,

Aussiecubs

03-25-2018, 01:18 AM	#3
Aussiecubs Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Sony ereader	Hi BetterRed, Thank you for your advice which has pointed me in the right direction. When you suggested to the rename the library I finally worked out that I had two libraries even though I was working on the assumption I only had the one, called Calibre. As part of the process of moving my collection to a new drive I had somehow or other moved the original library into D:\Calibre and then copied a second version of it into D:\Calibre\Calibre. I finished up with double the physical amount of books eg: 9800 files for a collection of only 1,500 books. I fixed it by exporting my Library to a new directory and then imported it back in to a fresh empty directory with a different name. I now have on library with 1,500 books and only 3,300 files. Thanks again for your help. Cheers, Aussiecubs