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Originally Posted by theducks
All you had to do if the old drive was mounted and readable:
Right click the library icon: Create/switch: Use Existing: <point to the old library>
Total time: ~30 seconds  |
Best if you
do want to have the old drive permanently mounted.
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Originally Posted by PeterT
If you had access to the old drive it might have been (and still could be) a lot easier just to copy the entire library folder (including the metadata.db file) to an empty folder on the new PC and then have calibre open the existing library in this new folder; no need to import anything.
(I might have some of the terms wrong here, but I know someone will correct me).
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Best if you
do not want to have the old drive permanently mounted.
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Originally Posted by country0129
... I found over 1/2 of the books did not import with a format; thus they were unreadable. What would cause this
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Nothing springs to mind, apart from permission errors but they should have been reported. Once you've done one of the above I suggest run the Check database tool on that library
BR