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Originally Posted by Strat O'Saurus
I have a new laptop (Windows 10, unfortunately) and want to recover the epubs currently in my old laptop (W8.1). I've tried to copy the epubs to a flash drive, then past them into a new folder in Documents, but so far without success.
Any hints to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Strat
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Since this thread is in the calibre forum I assume that the old laptop has the ebooks in a calibre library. If that is not the case, there are a plethora of other issues that dictate what steps are best. Also, if the ebooks are "burdened" with DRM there will be other steps necessary whether they have been managed by calibre or not.
The suggestion by theducks to use the EXPORT and IMPORT functions is an excellent method provided the old Win8.1 laptop still works well and you can still run calibre on that machine.
An alternate method that works when you can access the old HD but can't run calibre or don't have enough drive space to create the Export file set is to simply copy the whole calibre Library folder (top level folder and all files and subfolders) to the new machine. If the new machine has a "virgin" calibre installation, you would simply replace the new machine's empty Library folder with the one copied from the old machine.