Okay, I was able to eventually get the path right. Using an external disk for this sort of thing is new to me and it was a touch confusing. but I did get an odd remark in the terminal:
Quote:
frank@frank:~$ calibredb -- /media/home/frank/My Passport/Calibre restore_database -r
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Barnes & Noble.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Biblionet_gr.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Fantastic Fiction Adults.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Goodreads.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/KePub Metadata Writer.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Kobo Books.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Skoob.zip'
You must provide the --really-do-it option to do a recovery
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the "--really-do-it" option is confusing me.
I might be dumb, but I keep careful notes so I do ot have to bother people again, if that is of any comfort.
It looks like it has sort of worked and I think it is the code you prescribed, but I might have made a whole set of new mistakes. Finding that I had used capitals in the titles had me stumped for a while.
I am pleading a hot summer day as a mitigating circumstance.
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