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Old 06-06-2017, 09:00 PM   #1
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Export and Import of Metadata in Calibre

I have been using Calibre for a number of years. I had several thousand books in a library, only to lose the Calibre library due to a disk crash (I know. Backup!). However, I had exported most of the books to a separate location in an organization I prefer.

Now when I attempt to reimport those epubs, I have discovered that the metadata is missing. Obviously, I didn't do something correctly the first time. So this time, I tested by adding a book, editing the metadata, and polishing the epub. I deleted the original_epub. I then saved the file to disk.

However, when I try to reimport this file, the metadata is missing again. My understanding in the conversion process plus the polishing should have locked the metadata into the epub file. Am I wrong? Or did I miss a setting or step?

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@jeffersonm - to get metadata from within an epub when it's added
Preferences->Add Books->Read metadata from file contents rather than file name should be checked.

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Thank you so much. I can't believe I missed that prompt.

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@jeffersonm - to get metadata from within an epub when it's added
Preferences->Add Books->Read metadata from file contents rather than file name should be checked.

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Thank you so much. I can't believe I missed that prompt.
Happens to all of us, see post #8 in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=287110

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