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Originally Posted by marie39
Hi!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to seem rude. The last email alert went to junk mail for some reason. First of, when I talked about collections, I talked about "series" that I created". Also, I looked at your link from Calibre and it's the same steps. Once I imported the old library, like I said before, I had to put it in an empty folder. When I looked at it just now, I saw the metadata.db file that you talked about. I don't know if that file got created from the importation, meaning that my old metadata is in there or if it created when I installed Calibre again, meaning that there's no actual data in there. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that file. I dragged it in the software and it's like the software thought it was a book in itself. Could it mean that if the metadata contained info it would add my old library? I'm not sure. It's not a file that I'm supposed to import from import/export menu because I tried and it doesn't recognize the extension.
Marie
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You appear to be mixing methods with the expected results.
It ain't gonna work.
Export/Import are a PAIRING. If you used the Export step you get 1 or more spanned Archives with names like
part-####.calibre-data
THOSE are ONLY what
Import reads. And it needs the whole set (whatever was created due to YOUR Library size and quantity)
Creating a Folder and dropping a FULL copy of your old Library method: is just that.
You do this BEFORE invoking Calibre. Then simply direct Calibre to USE EXISTING at <location>