Check Library? How to mark for fix?

[mikhail_fil]

When Check Library find a bunch of errors, how to actually "mark" the books, so when I go back into the library I can easily find these books.

So far, the only way I can see is to Copy to clipboard, then search each one individually.

Is there any way to Tag them by error type right from the Check Library tool?

[theducks]

Did you use the little arrows to expand the items with problems?
The you can mark individual items, then the other buttons can be used

[mikhail_fil]

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Each one opened. All items checked off. Then clicked Mark for Fix. Clicked Done. Went into the main library view. Tried to Toggle Marked Books. No books are marked.

When books are Marked in Calibre, they are Marked with a PushPin. The only thing that it appears you can do in Mark for Fix is to do an Automatic Fix from within the menu. I don't want automatic fixes, I simply wanted those books to be marked so I could attend to them from within the main screen. But whatever "marking" is done inside the Check Library tool doesn't seem to carry over into the regular library view mode.

[BetterRed]

Retrospectively, it's a poor choice of words - Check library pre-dates Mark books. Maybe the "Mark all for fix/delete" could be changed to "Check all for fix/delete"

BR

[miss_p1nky]

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

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Each one opened. All items checked off. Then clicked Mark for Fix. Clicked Done. Went into the main library view. Tried to Toggle Marked Books. No books are marked.

When books are Marked in Calibre, they are Marked with a PushPin. The only thing that it appears you can do in Mark for Fix is to do an Automatic Fix from within the menu. I don't want automatic fixes, I simply wanted those books to be marked so I could attend to them from within the main screen. But whatever "marking" is done inside the Check Library tool doesn't seem to carry over into the regular library view mode.

This! I am also stuck because I can't tend those books found in Check Library. Hoping someone could help out.

[DNSB]

Last time I looked, the errors shown by Check Library are not fixable from outside Check Library short of mucking around in the calibre library from the OS which in Not A Good Idea. Errors such as empty folders, extra formats, unlisted manifested files, etc. should be fixed from within Check Library. There is no check on the individual books structure nor for such things as having an author listed as AW Snow, A.W. Snow, A. W. Snow, Alan W Snow, etc. which are items that could be detected and fixed from within calibre.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DNSB

There is no check on the individual books structure nor for such things as having an author listed as AW Snow, A.W. Snow, A. W. Snow, Alan W Snow, etc. which are items that could be detected and fixed from within calibre.

The Quality check plugin can find (and other variations. One test type at a time.)
and
FIX these to your configured standard
A correction is also applied to selected books, 1 type at a time.

There is no ONE CLICK, and your library is perfect

[mikhail_fil]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Last time I looked, the errors shown by Check Library are not fixable from outside Check Library short of mucking around in the calibre library from the OS which in Not A Good Idea. Errors such as empty folders, extra formats, unlisted manifested files, etc. should be fixed from within Check Library. There is no check on the individual books structure nor for such things as having an author listed as AW Snow, A.W. Snow, A. W. Snow, Alan W Snow, etc. which are items that could be detected and fixed from within calibre.

All I see is Deletable. I don't want to delete anything.
extra formats: I often have extra files that are generated when I convert from EPUB to DOCX then after additional alteration I print PDF to the folder. There are many instances why I may have an additional file or 2. Maybe its good, maybe it isn't. But blanket deleting is definitely not what I'd like to do.
Optimal Solution: Instead of simply opening the book file folder from Scan Library window, open the Calibre record, so i could drag the book into the appropriate record. Or just let me mark the files and deal with it from the library.

extra titles:
<<Extra titles: These are extra files in your calibre library that appear to be correctly-formed titles, but have no corresponding entries in the database.>>
I have not idea why they are extra, i know the books, they are in correctly-formed folders with metadata and covers, and surprisingly there is quite a number of these. I'd like to have a chance of investigating them instead of deleting. Also, if they are properly corrected titles, why delete them instead of re-adding them to the library?

extra authors same thing, when i click from Check Library to open Extra Authors, I find full books with metadata. I don't want to delete them. Naturally, if they are not in the database, then they cannot be "marked", but I would want to maybe COMPARE them with existing library for Duplicates, or just re-add in bulk.

Obviously I can do it all manually. Just takes a lot longer and encourages my OCD. lol

[theducks]

Extra are files those that Calibre lost track of.
ANYTHING that changes the folder or File Names (inc case), is an issue (Another reason Network, cloud filesystems calls issues, this include Humans
Look close to the (errors found) List. for ever Missing, is there ALSO an Extra with a similar name? A sure sign of file system being tampered with by something. The only safe way, is to use Calibre to: Add, rename, Delete books

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

All I see is Deletable. I don't want to delete anything.
extra formats: I often have extra files that are generated when I convert from EPUB to DOCX then after additional alteration I print PDF to the folder. There are many instances why I may have an additional file or 2. Maybe its good, maybe it isn't. But blanket deleting is definitely not what I'd like to do.
Optimal Solution: Instead of simply opening the book file folder from Scan Library window, open the Calibre record, so i could drag the book into the appropriate record. Or just let me mark the files and deal with it from the library.

The issue is that calibre does not have a database entry for those files. The main calibre interface is not going to help. Some of those are likely to be the types of item that I used to add to a .zip file in the book record and now add to the Data folder. I've used screenshots to allow me to locate the records after Check Library had run.

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

extra titles:
<<Extra titles: These are extra files in your calibre library that appear to be correctly-formed titles, but have no corresponding entries in the database.>>
I have not idea why they are extra, i know the books, they are in correctly-formed folders with metadata and covers, and surprisingly there is quite a number of these. I'd like to have a chance of investigating them instead of deleting. Also, if they are properly corrected titles, why delete them instead of re-adding them to the library?

Because they are already in the calibre library storage when they shouldn't be? What I have done for one friend where trying to use cloud storage for storing their library made a dog's breakfast of their library was to copy the library directory to their local computer's storage and then to create a new library and copy all the books to the new library. We then went through the old library and added the books that were left behind to the new library. This left us with a few books where the opf and/or cover file were all that were left. I left fixing those as an exercise for the student.

As to how this happens? The main causes that I've seen is people who have attempted to use the OS tools to manage their library, where a storage device has gone flakey and, as in the case mentioned, attempts to use network storage.

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

extra authors same thing, when i click from Check Library to open Extra Authors, I find full books with metadata. I don't want to delete them. Naturally, if they are not in the database, then they cannot be "marked", but I would want to maybe COMPARE them with existing library for Duplicates, or just re-add in bulk.

See the above. It can't be repeated too often that attempting to use any tool other than calibre to manage your library is a very bad idea. A very easy way to have the database and the library inconsistent.

Now if check library is reporting the database has issues, that's a whole different set of issues.

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

Obviously I can do it all manually. Just takes a lot longer and encourages my OCD. lol

Done properly once and keeping your hands out from under calibre's figurative skirts should be what you need to do.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

Extra are files those that Calibre lost track of.

Or user error.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

All I see is Deletable. I don't want to delete anything.
extra formats: I often have extra files that are generated when I convert from EPUB to DOCX then after additional alteration I print PDF to the folder. There are many instances why I may have an additional file or 2. Maybe its good, maybe it isn't. But blanket deleting is definitely not what I'd like to do.

Prevention is better than cure:

If you save an 'extra' format from Word into the book folder, and you want to keep it there, you should add the extra format to the book - at the time you create it. The simplest way to do that is to open the book folder and drag the 'extra' format onto the Book details panel, viz:



If you don't want to keep the extra format in your calibre library, save it somewhere else - e.g. the desktop.

And if you get a spurious format file (such as a Word work file) you can delete that file by ticking its check box, and then pressing the Delete button, viz:

Originally Posted by mikhail_fil

extra titles:
<<Exttra titles: These are extra files in your calibre library that appear to be correctly-formed titles, but have no corresponding entries in the database.>>
I have not idea why they are extra, i know the books, they are in correctly-formed folders with meadata and covers, and surprisingly there is quite a number of these. I'd like to have a chance of investigating thm instead of deleting. Also, if they are properly corrected titles, why delete them instead of re-adding them to the library?

extra authors same thing, when i click from Check Library to open Extra Authors, I find full books with metadata. I don't want to delete them. Naturally, if they are not in the database, then they cannot be "marked", but I would want to maybe COMPARE them with existing library for Duplicates, or just re-add in bulk.

I would use the Copy to clipboard option, paste the clipboard into a text editor, close calibre. Then, using the text as a guide, I would move the extra author/book folders out of the library into a 'problem books' folder, run Check library again to ensure I have a 'clean' library, and then deal with the 'problem books' folder.

BR