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Originally Posted by Starson17
Don't do any work on Computer-B at this point. If you do, you get a third copy of metadata.db. The first copy is what was done on both machines before the conflict. The second is what was done on both plus what was done only on Computer-A, but not yet known to Computer-B. The third is like the second, but includes what was done only on Computer-B, but not yet known to Computer-A.
Recovery from this is possible, but tricky. There will be no metadata.db file that is correct, and no way for dropbox to help. There will be no file yet available that has what is needed. You will need to run one of the last two metadata files, export the stuff known only to one machine, then run the other metadata and import the stuff you exported.
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True, once you are on
Computer-B and realize you have missing books or recipes then you should halt any updating of calibre or choose to redo your changes.
Redoing your changes may cause duplicate books in the in calibre's folder structure. Duplicates won't cause any problems unless you suffer fron OCD and continually search for problems in the pattern.
