Unrecognozed Library Contents

[edbmd@mac.com]

Using v1.10. Calibre recognizes location of my 'Calibre Library' but the contents do not show up in the main window upon opening the program.

Any suggestions appreciated.

[kovidgoyal]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....n-app-is-blank

[edbmd@mac.com]

Thanks for the reply, Kovid.

Below is a thread from the Facebook help forum - this is where I'm stuck.

Perhaps you have a more elegant solution than a 'book by book' reconstruction of a new library (my present library is 13GB!).

If this was you on Facebook, I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thanks in advance,

Emile


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Emile Broussard
11/13, 8:56am
Emile Broussard
Using v1.10. Calibre recognizes location of my 'Calibre Library' but the contents do not show up in the main window upon opening the program.
Any suggestions appreciated.

Thursday
Calibre
11/14, 6:34am
Calibre
please see http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....n-app-is-blank
The list of books in calibre is blank!¶In order to understand why that happened, you have to... - Fr
manual.calibre-ebook.com
A filesystem is a complex beast. Most network filesystems lack various filesystem features that calibre uses. Some dont support file locking, some dont support hardlinking, some are just flaky. Additionally, calibre is a single user application, if you accidentally run two copies of calibre on the s...

Emile Broussard
11/14, 7:06am
Emile Broussard
Thanks for the reply. I performed the above and was left with the same blank slate without my library in the application. My Calibre Library folder is visible on the desktop (Mac OS X Maverick) and contains 13 GB of books. Any further ideas for rebuilding the metadata database so the application recognizes the folder?

Calibre
11/14, 8:27am
Calibre
Ok just click on the calibre icon (the one with the books) in the main toolbar and click on create switch library and then in the window that opens juste enter the location of your calibre library folder. I think it just lost the location somehow. If this does not work let me know.

Emile Broussard
11/14, 8:47am
Emile Broussard
This is the error message upon attempt of above:
'calibre, version 1.10.0
ERROR: Same as current: The location /Users/Emile1/Calibre Library contains the current calibre library'

Thursday
Calibre
11/14, 10:09pm
Calibre
One of the two steps above should have worked. You can try one more thing. You can create a new library and then use the add all the files from your old library by right
clicking the add books button and choosing add files from folder one book per folder.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by edbmd@mac.com

Thanks for the reply, Kovid.

Below is a thread from the Facebook help forum - this is where I'm stuck.

Perhaps you have a more elegant solution than a 'book by book' reconstruction of a new library (my present library is 13GB!).

Is there a 'metadata.db' file in the library folder? I'm guessing not, or an empty one that got created when you first switched to it.

You could try Library Maintenance -> 'restore database'

[edbmd@mac.com]

Thanks for all the help. My library has finally been 'recognized'.