First, apologies if this is covered elsewhere on the forum - I'm happy to delete it if so, but I couldn't find all the information I needed in one place, and I thought my situation might happen to others, so this might end up being useful to people besides me.
I had a very large library in Calibre, working fine for a while. Unfortunately my harddrive died, and I just found out that the backup I made won't work (reasons not relevant here - but I've learned a lesson I'll never forget!).
Basically, I have two Kobo Libra 2s, and I just need to restore everything from them back into Calibre on my laptop - crucially, including collections information, as well as other metadata (though I don't really care about reading position info.)
Because I've had a series of IT disasters over the last couple of days (some not my fault, but one or two definitely my fault
), I want to make completely sure that I don't accidentally wipe the devices (though I have backed all of the files and folders from each of them to my laptop).
Basically, what I need to do is ensure that Calibre/KTE is set to copy all metadata, incl. collections info (as well as the books themselves, of course), from the devices, rather than the other way around. (I've already added the necessary #collections column in Calibre). I think that this can be done via KoboTouchExtended, but the advice I can find doesn't exactly correspond with what's in the Calibre interface - which I'm thinking might be because it was written prior to some updates?
Anyway, if anyone could give me a simple list of instructions for this - or point me to one if it already exists - I'd be most grateful.