Thread: Linking Calibre to an existing library on a new MacBook
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Old 03-11-2025, 03:48 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
Everything is fine this morning, Calibre correctly showed my library as soon as I opened it up, after I made sure the metadata.db file had updated.

I think I caused the the problem because I tried to link my calibre before all the files had down loaded from Dropbox and somehow I corrupted the metadata.db file.
That would explain it… maybe Dropbox does block mode synchronisation.

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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
I am now making a backup of Calibre on an external hard drive.


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