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Originally Posted by mikhail_fil
All I see is Deletable. I don't want to delete anything.
extra formats: I often have extra files that are generated when I convert from EPUB to DOCX then after additional alteration I print PDF to the folder. There are many instances why I may have an additional file or 2. Maybe its good, maybe it isn't. But blanket deleting is definitely not what I'd like to do.
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Prevention is better than cure:
If you save an 'extra' format from Word into the book folder,
and you want to keep it there, you should add the extra format to the book - at the time you create it. The simplest way to do that is to open the book folder and drag the 'extra' format onto the Book details panel, viz:
If you don't want to keep the extra format in your calibre library, save it somewhere else - e.g. the desktop.
And if you get a spurious format file (such as a Word work file) you can delete that file by ticking its check box, and then pressing the Delete button, viz:
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Originally Posted by mikhail_fil
extra titles:
<<Exttra titles: These are extra files in your calibre library that appear to be correctly-formed titles, but have no corresponding entries in the database.>>
I have not idea why they are extra, i know the books, they are in correctly-formed folders with meadata and covers, and surprisingly there is quite a number of these. I'd like to have a chance of investigating thm instead of deleting. Also, if they are properly corrected titles, why delete them instead of re-adding them to the library?
extra authors same thing, when i click from Check Library to open Extra Authors, I find full books with metadata. I don't want to delete them. Naturally, if they are not in the database, then they cannot be "marked", but I would want to maybe COMPARE them with existing library for Duplicates, or just re-add in bulk.
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I would use the Copy to clipboard option, paste the clipboard into a text editor, close calibre. Then, using the text as a guide, I would move the extra author/book folders out of the library into a 'problem books' folder, run Check library again to ensure I have a 'clean' library, and then deal with the 'problem books' folder.
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