View Single Post
Old 10-01-2022, 01:04 PM   #11
chaley
Grand Sorcerer
chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.chaley ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 12,454
Karma: 8012886
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Notts, England
Device: Kobo Libra 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainTivo View Post
I do have daily backups of my entire system, so I have access to any data on my machine for any date. Is it possible to manually find the database file in my backups and replace the current database with that?
The best approach would be to restore the entire calibre library folder from your backup. Restoring only the database will probably lead to inconsistencies between what the database thinks is in the library and what files are really there. The database is inside the calibre library folder.

You could try restoring just the db and see what happens. The database is named "metadata.db" and located just inside your calibre library folder. If you do this then you should immediately run calibre's check library function (in Library maintenance) to see if the library is unacceptably out of sync.

Finally and depending on what you did, you might want to restore the calibre configuration folder as well. You can find where it is by running calibre, going to Preferences / Miscellaneous and choosing Open configuration folder.
chaley is offline   Reply With Quote