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JimmXinu · 08-25-2020, 02:41 PM

Does Calibre not flush the library DB to disk when changing libraries?

I was pretty sure it does, or at least did, but I don't have another explanation for something I saw the other date:

I do my plugin dev testing in the same Calibre install I use as my 'daily driver', but in a different library. Currently, that install is 64bit v4.99.12 on Win10. I run Calibre in debug mode from a command prompt with calibre-debug -g.

Using a test library, I was testing something in FFF that was generating too much network traffic and I wanted to kill it quick. I did Ctrl-C in the command prompt by ancient reflex.

The weird thing is that my main library--which I wasn't in at the time--was missing all the changes that I had made to it before running that test in the test library. Updates to columns for existing books where lost, a deleted book was back (but not the dirs and formats on disk), and new created books were in the library dir, but not the DB.

08-25-2020, 02:41 PM	#272
JimmXinu Plugin Developer Posts: 7,005 Karma: 4604635 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Midwest USA Device: Kobo Clara Colour running KOReader	Does Calibre not flush the library DB to disk when changing libraries? I was pretty sure it does, or at least did, but I don't have another explanation for something I saw the other date: I do my plugin dev testing in the same Calibre install I use as my 'daily driver', but in a different library. Currently, that install is 64bit v4.99.12 on Win10. I run Calibre in debug mode from a command prompt with calibre-debug -g. Using a test library, I was testing something in FFF that was generating too much network traffic and I wanted to kill it quick. I did Ctrl-C in the command prompt by ancient reflex. The weird thing is that my main library--which I wasn't in at the time--was missing all the changes that I had made to it before running that test in the test library. Updates to columns for existing books where lost, a deleted book was back (but not the dirs and formats on disk), and new created books were in the library dir, but not the DB.