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Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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So I restored the metadata.db file from the day before I did the bulk metadata edit and the "date" field is now back to what it was.
I conclude that I must have inadvertently set the date on all books when I was cleaning up the tags fields.
Thanks for all the help.
BTW, I don't see any way to edit the thread title to indicate a solved problem such as is done in other forums.