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Originally Posted by chaley
I assume you are talking about calibre settings? Sorry, but I find the notion of a calibre 'factory' amusing.
In any event, you can erase the saved conversion settings for books by selecting the books in question, opening 'edit metadata in bulk' (the E key if more than one book is selected), choosing 'remove stored conversion settings for selected books', and pressing OK.
For the preferences, use the 'Restore defaults' button available on every dialog.
If you *truly want* to reset completely to default, then:
1: start calibre. Go to preferences -> advanced -> Miscellaneous.
2: choose 'open calibre configuration directory'. A file explorer should appear.
3: quit calibre.
4: delete all the files showing in the file explorer. The files will have names like gui.py, gui.json, global.py, iterator.pickle, save_to_disk.py, and many more.
5: start calibre. You will be started in the welcome wizard. Tell it where your library is.
I suggest that you make a backup of the configuration folder, just in case you find you don't really like starting over.
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An old thread, but this is what I want to do:
Reset Calibre to default and have the welcome wizard appear.
I've been having problems installing Calibre on a new laptop.
I'm going to use the 'Export/Import all Calibre data' feature this time but I have books in my library already.
Shoud I (following the instructions above) delete the file explorer for 'Calibre configuration directory' after Calibre has shut down, then delete the books in my library?
I will then have an empty library folder.
Start up Calibre where I should get the welcome wizard where it will ask for destination of the library folder. Point it to the folder (which is now empty).
I then use 'Export/Import all Calibre data' to install all books, settings and plugins.
Is this the correct way to do this?