Messed up my library

pollybel · 06-20-2013, 04:32 AM

When I opened Calibre yesterday it showed nil books, authors etc. I therefore did a restore and all my books appeared in the library. Great. The problem is that I had previously added a column to allow me to mark the books I had read. After restoring this column is no longer there. I know I can add a new column but is there a way to retrieve the information of the books I read or is this data lost in the restore?

Thanks in advance

Adoby · 06-20-2013, 06:53 AM

The data for the extra column was stored in the file metadata.db in the calibre library. Most likely you replaced it with the old one when you did the restore. So the answer is no. Sorry.

pollybel · 06-22-2013, 04:23 PM

Thanks for the info. Need to try and remember which books I have already read.

06-20-2013, 04:32 AM	#1
pollybel Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle	Messed up my library When I opened Calibre yesterday it showed nil books, authors etc. I therefore did a restore and all my books appeared in the library. Great. The problem is that I had previously added a column to allow me to mark the books I had read. After restoring this column is no longer there. I know I can add a new column but is there a way to retrieve the information of the books I read or is this data lost in the restore? Thanks in advance

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06-20-2013, 06:53 AM	#2
Adoby Handy Elephant Posts: 1,737 Karma: 26785684 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Southern Sweden, far out in the quiet woods Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra	The data for the extra column was stored in the file metadata.db in the calibre library. Most likely you replaced it with the old one when you did the restore. So the answer is no. Sorry.

06-22-2013, 04:23 PM	#3
pollybel Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle	Thanks for the info. Need to try and remember which books I have already read.

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