Unable to suppress a book from Calibre

[diane55]

Hi,

I meet a problem when I tried to integrate an audiobook in Calibre. The library is on an external disk (H
A line showing a book appears without any file in the date base.

But I am unable to delete this line.

calibre 7.20 Portable embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: fr
EXE path: H:\Calibre-Audio\Calibre Portable\Calibre\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Find Duplicates (1, 10, 9) && Kobo Utilities (2, 17, 2) && Quality Check (1, 13, 15)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 460, in delete_books
File "calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 437, in do_library_delete
File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 474, in delete_books_by_id
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 85, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 2224, in remove_books
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 2295, in remove_books
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 1159, in executemany
File "C:\t\t\apsw-42s16m2x\src\cursor.c", line 240, in resetcursor
apsw.CorruptError: CorruptError: database disk image is malformed

The verification of the data base of the library (via the maintenance menu) : no error
I've made a verification of the external disk H, there is no error.


Thank's in advance for your assistance.

[bluepeter]

I note your comment "The library is on an external disk (H: )". I wonder if that might be the problem? See here.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by diane55

I meet a problem when I tried to integrate an audiobook in Calibre. The library is on an external disk (H

What sort of file is the audiobook?

What sort of device is the external disk - HDD, SSD, SD Card…, and how is it formatted.

Originally Posted by diane55

A line showing a book appears without any file in the date base.

But I am unable to delete this line.

What happens of you press 'O' to open book folder, and if it opens what's in the folder?

EDIT - we've been here before ==>> Impossible to restore the database

BR