Restore help with Macbook

bookworm01 · 01-06-2011, 12:35 AM

Hello All, I know very little about computers and in playing around with my Calibre I accidentally deleted all of my books. I have no idea how to restore my database. I looked in the user manual and it shows to type --really-do-it in the command line. One, i have no idea where the command line is, and two, i tried typing that in a text box a bunch of different ways and it just says:

Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
44

ownloads waltercruz$ --really-do-it
-bash: --really-do-it: command not found
44

ownloads waltercruz$ "--really-do-it"
-bash: --really-do-it: command not found
44

ownloads waltercruz$

Can someone help me? And please explain in Laymen's terms

chaley · 01-06-2011, 03:28 AM

The restore_database command requires that the book files are still physically in the library. Are they? Use the file explorer for your system and go to the folder/directory that contained calibre's library. You should see a bunch of folders named for authors. Inside those folders should be more folders named for titles. Inside these second-level folders should be various files. Do you have these?

If the files aren't there, then unless you have a backup of your library somewhere, you are out of luck.

If the files are there, then is there a file named metadata.db in the same folder as the one containing all the authors' names?

01-06-2011, 12:35 AM	#1
bookworm01 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: nook	Restore help with Macbook Hello All, I know very little about computers and in playing around with my Calibre I accidentally deleted all of my books. I have no idea how to restore my database. I looked in the user manual and it shows to type --really-do-it in the command line. One, i have no idea where the command line is, and two, i tried typing that in a text box a bunch of different ways and it just says: Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net> 44ownloads waltercruz$ --really-do-it -bash: --really-do-it: command not found 44ownloads waltercruz$ "--really-do-it" -bash: --really-do-it: command not found 44ownloads waltercruz$ Can someone help me? And please explain in Laymen's terms

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01-06-2011, 03:28 AM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,447 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	The restore_database command requires that the book files are still physically in the library. Are they? Use the file explorer for your system and go to the folder/directory that contained calibre's library. You should see a bunch of folders named for authors. Inside those folders should be more folders named for titles. Inside these second-level folders should be various files. Do you have these? If the files aren't there, then unless you have a backup of your library somewhere, you are out of luck. If the files are there, then is there a file named metadata.db in the same folder as the one containing all the authors' names?

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