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Old 02-28-2021, 04:45 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by BewilderedUser View Post
Yeah, I didn't realize any of this until starting to consolidate my collection today! But surely there's a way to slap Calibre on the head and say, "there boy there, fetch! Sic! Kill!"

I mean, how can I make Calibre know that these are eBooks already arranged in nice Calibre author-name folders??



Well, the counterfeit stuff is supposed to fail basically right away -- and I didn't get the card off Amazon but from B&H which isn't a total Wild West kind of place. But I was just referring to Flash technology's inherent limitations; I got a SanDisk 1TB microSD for $250 instead of something like a $400 top-of-the-line Samsung one.



Yup! That's why I thought it's about time all my eBooks from various different installations of Calibre across different computers should be consolidated now -- on my microSD as well as a compact portable HDD!
You did it and it quickly failed again. Library maintainence:restore

That builds a fresh db using metadata_db_prefs_backup.json to create a empty DB matching the old DB custom structure. THEN it reads the metadata.opf in every folder in that file tree.
IMHO get a USB H drive. 5T is under $100
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