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Originally Posted by MikesBooks

So I'm not sure how to answer this, so I'll do my best

Inside the opf file for each book I still see the information, such as price and read_month. But of course, the new database doesn't know what these columns are. If I try and create, say, a #priority one, it doesn't recognize it as the same data from the books opf.

I can easily redo the custom icons, that was no big deal, but I'd really love to recover the custom columns somehow.

Restoring an old db still leads to crashes, and just for the sake of things, i did a hard factory reset/format of the HD, reinstalled windows, and went back to the old drivers.

So far it seems stable with the new metadata.db but I really would like to figure out how to copy the look/feel and customs from the old one to the new.

Is there any way to export/import just that? Or copy it somehow to a new empty database and start fresh?

Thanks!

You can start a new empty library with all of your custom columns. Then you can copy from the current library to the new library. If there are any columns in the current library that are not in the new library, you can decide if you want them or not as you'll get asked which columns you want.