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peaceridge · 09-19-2020, 01:28 PM

Somehow I have managed to lose a bunch of books from my Calibre library. I have a backup on dropbox I want to just merge the backup into my library (ignoring duplicates).

My problem is that calibre does not recognize the backup as a library. Do I have to open every single folder on the backup to recover the ebooks, or is there a slick way of getting calibre to accept the dropbox ebooks as a library? I have read through everything I can find on here, but it all assumes 2 calibre libraries.

09-19-2020, 01:28 PM	#1
peaceridge Wizard Posts: 1,019 Karma: 4407864 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Kobo Aura1, Nexus7.2, Galaxy Tab A 8.4, Ipad Air & Mini 6	Merge an existing library with a backup from Dropbox Somehow I have managed to lose a bunch of books from my Calibre library. I have a backup on dropbox I want to just merge the backup into my library (ignoring duplicates). My problem is that calibre does not recognize the backup as a library. Do I have to open every single folder on the backup to recover the ebooks, or is there a slick way of getting calibre to accept the dropbox ebooks as a library? I have read through everything I can find on here, but it all assumes 2 calibre libraries.