Thread: Why does Calibre Library take up so much space? 7000 books equals 50GB when exported
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Old 08-07-2020, 01:07 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
thanks haertig for correcting the code. It was originally created by someone else. Unfortunately, because I don't code, I didn't know how to read the code.
I now ran your corrected code and got this result:

I've attached a screenshot of filetypes in the Calibre program.

Update: The numbers (of files per type) is a match!
Running an old add the numbers kludge (copy/paste a set of columns and it totals the numbers in the columns), divided the result by 1024^3 and out popped 51.22GiB. We have a winner!
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