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Originally Posted by Darryl_Gittins
I've already done this (mucked with the files) and totally botched my entire book collection. I now have a huge mess of duplicates.
Can anyone offer suggestions on how to start from scratch and clean up the mess?
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I suggest:
Get your Calibre GUI interface to the library cleaned up, so that you have one and only one entry for each book you want, with all the book formats for each and all metadata set correctly. You can stop there ... or ...
You can then Save to Disk with the .opf and .jpg options turned on (they are by default), then turn off Calibre, change the name of your Calibre library (so Calibre can't find the library) and Add Books all of the Books you Saved to Disk. That will give you a clean library, with all your metadata.
If you stopped before the last steps, you'd have some extra junk in your library, but you wouldn't see it and it wouldn't cause any harm other than eating up some space.
Edit: If you have duplicates in the database that appear in the GUI, you may want to wait until the next release of Calibre when the Merge function will be introduced. You'll be able to merge those dupes, with all the metadata.