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Originally Posted by stan999
I don't see any use for them whatsoever. I changed settings to ignore cover and .opf files. I'm convinced these are implemented for a reason, which one would that be?
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The reason the cover and the OPF files are there is in case the database gets corrupted. You can restore the database because Calibre gets the information from the OPF files and the cover from the cover files. So if you don't have these files and you need to restore your database, you are not going to be able to and you will have to start over.
So allow Calibre to create the cover and OPF files and be safe. I'm not sure if this will work, but give it a try. Allow Calibre to create the cover and OPF files. Create a new database based on your existing database and copy everything from the existing database to the new database. That (I would think) would create the covers and OPF. If that works and the new database is OK, delete the directory and all the subdirectories in the old database directory.