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Old 05-21-2022, 11:52 AM   #1
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Through several backups, reinstalls and general moving about, I have some files that are missing, with just the meta and cover in the folder, but no book. Is there a filter that is available or that I can set up that would allow me to see exactly which folders have missing items, or am I just hunting and pecking?
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Old 05-21-2022, 12:10 PM   #2
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That you both! The "format:false" worked... the results we rather distressing, but I have a backup of my books elsewhere, so...
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That you both! The "format:false" worked... the results we rather distressing, but I have a backup of my books elsewhere, so...
Formats:false says Calibre KNOWS they are missing (you did something to delete that (whatever it was) format).
If something else went behind the skirts (used the OS or you had a drive fail),
Calibre would still think they were there, and that would NOT list those books.

Note: If you ran Library Maintenance: and had it fix found errors. The DB now matches what is there. You should have been asking WHY! , first and try to recover (the metadata might be to your liking and all you needed was to replace the format. Add, usually means you start over with the metadata).
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This is not a good option to find books that are missing for reasons unrelated to Calibre (e.g. cloud syncing gone wrong, disk failure, manually deleting the files from the file explorer and so on). It only finds the books Calibre knows are missing.
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This is not a good option to find books that are missing for reasons unrelated to Calibre (e.g. cloud syncing gone wrong, disk failure, manually deleting the files from the file explorer and so on). It only finds the books Calibre knows are missing.
Good point: I forgot to ask if the library was on network drive/cloud.

Even worse: If it was Google drive.
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