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recreating or updated and messed-up library
So because if my ridiculously complicated backup and synch strategy, for months now I've been adding books, only for them to be quietly deleted a few days later. This has been going on since February! Today I spotted the issue and managed to restore all the deleted booked back to their original Calibre folders. The only problem is, the Calibre library is now horribly out of sync, and probably completely messed up because I've been adding books via my PC and my laptop. Is there any way for Calibre to scan all the folders and recreate the library that way from scratch? Or do I have to start a new library and copy all the books into it one at a time (as some folders have epub and mobi versions and from now on I'll only need the epub versions for my kindle)?
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RISKY because you should never do any changes inside the Library folder using other than Calibre,
Did you also restore the metadata.opf in the same folder? That contains the database Entry backup (needed for a restore). BACKUP BEFORE trying. <<<<<< On the Library Icon, Library Maintenance:restore database That read those files. Otherwise you are going to build a New Library (in a new Location) using Add Books: From folders and sub-folders (not all metadata will be recovered if you had not previously embedded it into the Library Copy) |
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kind of worked...with quite a few errors, but i went through them all and it seems ok now...hard to tell with a library of this size, truth be told...time will tell
Thanks for the help! Last edited by simonzed; 09-30-2022 at 12:50 PM. |
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