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Originally Posted by rjwse@aol.com
I am looking for the listing of Saved Searches but cannot find it. I was able to find the snippet file as a .json but not Saved Searches. Does anyone know? I am reconstructing a corrupt Ubuntu 19.10 (that won't load) onto a new 20.04 and am copying and pasting as needed. Inadvertently, I am learning a lot. Best regards, Pop
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Saved searches are stored in the metadata.db for the library. They are backed up in the file metadata_db_prefs_backup.json, located in the top folder of the library along with metadata.db. The json key/dictionary to look for is "saved_searches". Each item in that dictionary is a saved search. The key is the search name and the value is the search text.
The only way to recover these and other library-only prefs is to create a new library, put a copy of metadata_db_prefs_backup.json in that library, then restore the library. This will recover custom column definitions, virtual libraries, saved searches, and a host of other things. If you can't/won't do that then you must enter them one by one in the new library. Fortunately this isn't too hard given you have both the name and the text.