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Old Yesterday, 01:52 PM   #13
artistwantab
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
YOU DO NOT ADD books from the old library backup. The backup IS A LIBRARY. Simply copy it (the Library folder) over to a folder on the new drive. The us Create/Switch: use existing: <the folder>. Done! (except for overall user settings).
If you rename the copied FOLDER before the Create/Switch, that will be the Library name you see in Calibre .
That works...it saves me a lot of work for sure.

In the future is there a way of saving those setting so if I install calibre in a new computer I don't need to do that...I can just simply apply the old settings to a new calibre installation.
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