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Originally Posted by gai-jin
So right now, I've got a LOT of books that show no formats available when I am on the edit metadata screen, and also on the small details pane below the book list when I select a book. But when I search for format:false, None of those show up in the results. Clearly, the 'in memory' database is out of sync with whatever Calibre looks at to populate the details pane. How can I fix that?
Do I just need to uninstall calibre and re-install it? Or would it still see the old data files and end up with the same issue?
If I do re-install, is all the work I've done on correcting metadata for books going to be lost, or does calibre save the changes in the original ebook when I make changes?
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I noticed a bug during the .6 beta which I haven't had time to delve into in detail. Several of my books with no formats actually have formats in the actual book directory - use the 'Open Containing Folder' menu option to check this out. In my case these books also fail to match the format:false query. If you're seeing the same behavior as me then don't change the metadata for these books unless you have backups, as editing any of the data will delete the actual book Calibre doesn't see.
In my case I had no way to get anything to stick to these specific books, I could re-add formats, but they wouldn't save. I suspect completely deleting the book and re-adding will work. Since the query doesn't work I've resorted to clicking through the books in the list one-by-one to see which don't report having formats.
I took a glance at these books in a SQL database viewer. Nothing jumped out on the first check, but I'll look again.