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pequod71 · 05-21-2021, 05:16 PM

First of all, please apologize if this question is already discussed and solved in any other thread. If so, I couldn't find it.
I had to give new use to my previous laptop, so I copied the content of my Calibre Library and I pasted it into my new laptop. Here, on my new laptop, I downloaded Calibre and pasted the content of the Library folder into the Library folder of the newly downloaded Calibre program. When doing this I noticed that, for whatever reason (I don't know why) my copy of the previous Library folder didn't include the metadata.db files.
I open the new Calibre and the list is empty: no book.
Is it because I lost (or so it seems) the metadata of the original Library?
Any method I can solve this?
Thanks a lot in advance.

05-21-2021, 05:16 PM	#1
pequod71 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Problem copying library into new computer First of all, please apologize if this question is already discussed and solved in any other thread. If so, I couldn't find it. I had to give new use to my previous laptop, so I copied the content of my Calibre Library and I pasted it into my new laptop. Here, on my new laptop, I downloaded Calibre and pasted the content of the Library folder into the Library folder of the newly downloaded Calibre program. When doing this I noticed that, for whatever reason (I don't know why) my copy of the previous Library folder didn't include the metadata.db files. I open the new Calibre and the list is empty: no book. Is it because I lost (or so it seems) the metadata of the original Library? Any method I can solve this? Thanks a lot in advance.