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Old 03-05-2010, 08:16 AM   #17
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Regarding your last point. Is there any way of retaining the matadata that I've manually updated.
I believe you can use save to disk to back up your files. I think when these are added back into Calibre they retain all previous metadata. Save to disk from one machine, clean up the duplicates, then import/add those to Calibre on a second computer or to a different library location on the same machine.

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If I transfer my library from my laptop to the PC I'll lose the metdata that I've manually corrected. Can I simply keep the metadata.db and overwrite the new one once copied across?
You are correct you would lose your previously edited metadata.

No you can not just copy over the new metadata.db with the old. I believe the metadata.db file contains within it your entire structure indexed including metadata so you could not do the latter.
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