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Using a calibre library varying from Linux and Windows may, because of the differences between the filesystems mentioned above, lead to silent corruption of the calibre library.

You update metadata and add new books and things look fine for months. But slowly book formats are orphaned in folders that look, but are not, identical to another folder. I've been there.

One possible fix is to move all the books to another library. And then manually move the books left orphaned and abandoned.

This problem was one reason (not the only) why I stopped using Windows at home. Now, for some years, I have only used Linux (and some Android) at home.

Apart from poor sleep, some twitching and extreme sensitivity to penguins, I have not had any pr