Now What Do I Do?

Sydney's Mom · 05-02-2013, 05:02 PM

I restored my library to Feb 6, from a backup I had done. I wanted to add the books I had gotten since Feb 6. Well, I used the copy to library rather than the add books. So it just added the dublicates. Now, I can just restore another library, and do it right, but is there a way to highlight and eliminate duplicates other than one by one? I should have a library of 6000 books, but I have a library of 12000.

EDIT: I searched Calibre and Find Duplicates was suggested to someone just a few months ago. I installed that and will see how it works! Thanks

alanHd · 05-02-2013, 05:12 PM

Use the find duplicates plugin, i use binary compare and it can be configured to automatically remove duplicates, although i dont use that feature.

05-02-2013, 05:02 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,899 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	Thanks, I searched this forum and found my answer! I restored my library to Feb 6, from a backup I had done. I wanted to add the books I had gotten since Feb 6. Well, I used the copy to library rather than the add books. So it just added the dublicates. Now, I can just restore another library, and do it right, but is there a way to highlight and eliminate duplicates other than one by one? I should have a library of 6000 books, but I have a library of 12000. EDIT: I searched Calibre and Find Duplicates was suggested to someone just a few months ago. I installed that and will see how it works! Thanks Last edited by Sydney's Mom; 05-02-2013 at 05:12 PM. Reason: Problem Solved

05-02-2013, 05:12 PM	#2
alanHd Addict Posts: 374 Karma: 1408579 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, Ipod Touch, Ipad Air	Use the find duplicates plugin, i use binary compare and it can be configured to automatically remove duplicates, although i dont use that feature.

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