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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The entire folder there named calibre (which contains all those files in your screenshot) is what you want to back up. That's the configuration folder.
And yeah, a sudden crash while calibre is open can corrupt your settings. It happened to me too a while ago. I restored my configuration folder from backup.
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And yes, I was backing up the folder, just not one way synced in a while...
Figures I've been too lazy to fix my over datalimits issue with dropbox, so the last backup of that is feb 26. Probably fine. Much larger file too. Lemme backup the current, even if it is probably just newly generated defaults barring a few last few hours modifications by me, and replace any of those pictured if smaller than my older version.
Huh.. my dropbox has 6gb free.. why am I not using it again? Rhetorical.
Went thru those files with modified times since power outage. Only one had significant difference and 1/7th the size vs my old backups, the gui.json. A small peek at the
visual code compare.
Adding back in...
Ok that
worked out nicely! I probably lost some minor changes between now and feb, but this is a lot better than a clean slate!
Appreciate the help folks. Saved me lots of time trying to figure out where to look, and quite possibly making it harder on myself messing up the modified times worse. Now I need to make sure my backups are working again :sweat:
the old quickstart had a more flashy
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Originally Posted by Comfy.n
I won't enter into the specifics of what could have happened, that caused the new copy of QS guide and stuff, but if you can find a copy of gui.json, that's where toolbar data is stored. Then you would need to replace the current at
%APPDATA%\Calibre (C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Roaming\calibre
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Thanks, that was the exact file I needed to restore! Appreciate it greatly!