Calibre is Empty - Page 2

chaley · 04-04-2022, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Josieb1

I’m all sorted now. I went to Dropbox and was able to replace my dab file with an earlier version from the 27th March. Once that change filtered down to all three devices I opened calibre (one at a time) and everything showed as it did the last time I added a new book. At least with Dropbox they did actually have a back up I could use.

Of course, you now need to work out what happened. Why did an invalid version of the calibre database (I assume the "dab file" is metadata.db) get uploaded to Dropbox? From where? Why didn't it get downloaded to the Win10 machine? And how do you prevent it happening again?

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