Restoring OPF information to a book

ownedbycats · 09-24-2020, 11:26 PM

Had a slight mishap when merging book formats and accidentally wiped half of a book's metadata fields. I have a recent backup of the OPF. Is there a way to somehow re-attach that to the book without re-adding the book from a directory? Dragging and dropping the OPF file just tried to add it as a format....

I do have a full backup available if re-adding is the only option (I use differential backups to save space), but it's heavily compressed and a bit of a pain to use just to restore one folder.

ownedbycats · 09-25-2020, 11:23 AM

I figured out a kludgey way around this without having to break open my backups. I used "Save to Disk," swapped out the OPFs, and then re-added it from directory.

09-24-2020, 11:26 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,973 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Restoring OPF information to a single book Had a slight mishap when merging book formats and accidentally wiped half of a book's metadata fields. I have a recent backup of the OPF. Is there a way to somehow re-attach that to the book without re-adding the book from a directory? Dragging and dropping the OPF file just tried to add it as a format.... I do have a full backup available if re-adding is the only option (I use differential backups to save space), but it's heavily compressed and a bit of a pain to use just to restore one folder. Last edited by ownedbycats; 09-24-2020 at 11:49 PM.

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09-25-2020, 11:23 AM	#2
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,973 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I figured out a kludgey way around this without having to break open my backups. I used "Save to Disk," swapped out the OPFs, and then re-added it from directory.

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