Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing great :-)
Yesterday, after performing a backup to an external hard drive, I formatted my Laptop and installed a clean OS (Windows 11). When I reinstalled Calibre and copied the old folder with all the books to C:\Biblioteca Calibre 2024 and told Calibre to use a preexisting library at that folder, it only imported some of the books. The original library had over 3000 books and the new one only had over 2400. For some reason, it was only importing books added to Calibre before July 2024 (or so I think, as that is the closest date on the library when I organise it by date). Everything added since then wasn't showing.
After reading through another thread here, I performed a library restore and now I have even less books in Calibre (1912). But after the restore, it did import some (or maybe all, no way of knowing) of the new ones (added after July 2024).
Also, I performed a library check and I do have those black triangles in some of the entries (image attached).
I have checked some of the books that I remember to be missing and they are in the Calibre library folder if I use Windows Explorer to look for them, just not showing on Calibre.
It's the first time in many years this has happened after an OS restore. I have followed the same procedure I always have (backup Calibre library folder to external hard drive, format PC, install all relevant software, and Windows updates, Install Calibre and tell it where the library is).
I am NOT synching the library with any cloud software either, I learned that lesson a year ago (the hard way).
Can any of you help with this, please? I do have a clean backup copy of the library in the external HD (luckily I didn't delete it after copying it to the PC).
