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Old 04-06-2018, 02:39 AM   #1
Old-T
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Books in my library missing in Calibre

Hi,
first of all, I've tried to search for this issue but hasn't found any answer.
When I added a book today I saw that according to Calibre this book was the first book by the author.
When I checked the disc I found (as I expected) that I had several other titles there. I can see that they were imported by Calibre before since the directory structure/naming is correct but the books are missing in Calibre.
Is there a way (using library maintenance maybe) to automatically add all these missing books books? (without copying them again to the same name but the Calibre number)
I suspect that I might have restored a library database from a backup sometime when there were books added after the backup.

The only other way I can see to solve is:
  • Import the whole file structure where Calibre is stored today
  • Do not import any duplicates
  • For each new book imported, check the author directory to see if the books already exists with different numbers
  • Remove the book with the lower number

The problem is that there are quite a lot of books missing...
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