How do I replace my Library? - Page 2

Sabardeyn · 07-31-2013, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wcott

Honestly, I used ADD BOOKS

Wcott,
Effectively your comment means you told calibre to add another copy of your books into your existing library. So if you had 10 books in your library, you wanted to create a second entry of every book, for a total of 20 books within your library.

You did not need to add or re-import books into your calibre library. What you needed to do was re-establish a specific library as the one currently in use by calibre.

The command to do that is under Choose Library>Switch/create library... then you would have filled in the New Location path (manually or with the browse icon to it's right) to point to the correct folder where your library is located, and made sure the Use the previously existing library at the new location option was selected/checked. Although a bit strangely named, this option simply means calibre should use the library it finds in the destination folder - not create a new library.

wcott · 08-01-2013, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Wcott,
Effectively your comment means you told calibre to add another copy of your books into your existing library. So if you had 10 books in your library, you wanted to create a second entry of every book, for a total of 20 books within your library.

You did not need to add or re-import books into your calibre library. What you needed to do was re-establish a specific library as the one currently in use by calibre.

The command to do that is under Choose Library>Switch/create library... then you would have filled in the New Location path (manually or with the browse icon to it's right) to point to the correct folder where your library is located, and made sure the Use the previously existing library at the new location option was selected/checked. Although a bit strangely named, this option simply means calibre should use the library it finds in the destination folder - not create a new library.

Yes, that became painfully apparent - as I spend umpteen hours deleting all the duplicate files in the Calibre Library. I am saving this comment to use when the inevitable happens again.

My choices are at Choose/Switch are :
- "use previous existing lib. at new location" which is already toggled on....
or - "create an empty library at new location" and check off the "copy structure from the current library" part.
and lastly - "move current library to new location".

I should be using which option if this hellish scenario ever presents itself again?

Adoby · 08-01-2013, 12:53 PM

Assuming that your calibre library is in good order now, make frequent backups. If you should encounter problems in the future, just exit calibre, delete (or rename) the current library folder and restore the most recent backup to the original place. That is all you would have to do.

I strongly recommend that you try it out now. Perhaps using a smaller test library.

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08-01-2013, 12:53 PM	#18
Adoby Handy Elephant Posts: 1,737 Karma: 26785684 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Southern Sweden, far out in the quiet woods Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra	Assuming that your calibre library is in good order now, make frequent backups. If you should encounter problems in the future, just exit calibre, delete (or rename) the current library folder and restore the most recent backup to the original place. That is all you would have to do. I strongly recommend that you try it out now. Perhaps using a smaller test library.

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