Thread: Not enough space to export/backup library. How to do partial backup?
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Old 01-22-2021, 11:04 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
Assuming menu options haven't changed significantly from 3.38 (on Windows 7)

Preferences -> Adding books -> Adding actions -> Auto-merge added books if they already exist ->
a. Ignore duplicate incoming formats
b. Overwrite existing duplicate formats

If you're copying from backup library to original for merging, option a. keeps the copy from original library (if it exists) and option b. keeps the copy from the backup library.


With that said, I don't know how metadata gets handled when merging. Tags, etc. are likely fine but long text such as comments might get appended. It might be better to just delete the empty entries from the original library first before copying from the backup library.

I updated to the latest Calibre version today (v5.10.1) and the relevant section is still the same. (Please refer to attached screenshot.).

In the next few days, I plan to test this out.

Thanks.
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