Thread: can't get new installation on a new computer to recognise old library
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Old 10-06-2018, 08:51 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by alansplace View Post
Here's what I did successfully. I created a new empty library named Library. in the root of C: and after Calibre recognized it I shut down Calibre and then deleted Library. after that I renamed my old library Library and copied it to the root of C:. Then I restarted Calibre and it was successfully recognised.

again for the help!

As of calibre 3.30 [24 Aug, 2018]:
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Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries

Closes tickets: 1787488
You had a "new" install on you new computer using the transferred data from the old.
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