To move the library

ownedbycats · 03-14-2025, 09:27 PM

To move the library from D:\Documents\My Books\ to D:\My Books\ - various reasons. If I do this in my file manager (preserve timestamps), do I need to fix anything in the appdata folder?

PeterT · 03-14-2025, 09:34 PM

Shouldn't have too. But rather than use a file manager, why not just move it?

At the command prompt

Code:

move "D:\Documents\My Books\"  "D:\My Books\"

should work. Note the quotes are needed due to their being spaces in the names.

ownedbycats · 03-14-2025, 09:35 PM

Does change the creation time?

DNSB · 03-14-2025, 10:26 PM

Just checked. The root "My Books" obviously gets a new time stamp but the directories and files inside only had the Accessed timestamp changed when moved from the command line.

I would suggest disconnecting the library from calibre, closing calibre, moving the library and then re-attaching to calibre.

ownedbycats · 03-22-2025, 10:57 AM

Just found out that the calibre:// urls didn't update and make a blank metadata.db in the old locaiton. But that's the only thing.

03-14-2025, 09:27 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,395 Karma: 80947541 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	To move the library To move the library from D:\Documents\My Books\ to D:\My Books\ - various reasons. If I do this in my file manager (preserve timestamps), do I need to fix anything in the appdata folder?

03-14-2025, 09:34 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,747 Karma: 80104526 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Shouldn't have too. But rather than use a file manager, why not just move it? At the command prompt Code: move "D:\Documents\My Books\" "D:\My Books\" should work. Note the quotes are needed due to their being spaces in the names.

03-14-2025, 10:26 PM	#4
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 48,911 Karma: 174631582 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Just checked. The root "My Books" obviously gets a new time stamp but the directories and files inside only had the Accessed timestamp changed when moved from the command line. I would suggest disconnecting the library from calibre, closing calibre, moving the library and then re-attaching to calibre. Last edited by DNSB; 03-14-2025 at 10:28 PM.

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03-14-2025, 09:35 PM	#3
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,395 Karma: 80947541 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Does change the creation time?

03-22-2025, 10:57 AM	#5
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,395 Karma: 80947541 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Just found out that the calibre:// urls didn't update and make a blank metadata.db in the old locaiton. But that's the only thing.

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