10-07-2013, 03:28 PM | #1 |
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Reimport books from another folder to Calibre folder structure?
Hello! I have a bit of a situation which I'm hoping you can help with.
I recently lost my Calibre folder (all folders, all ebooks), although I still have the metadata (OPF) that Calibre displays. I also have a separate folder containing the same books that Calibre used to have but not the same structure, no OPF. So although the books appear in Calibre, I cannot 'use' them. For example double clicking it will bring up this error. What I would like to do is to restore the files from my 'other' folders back into the Calibre folder structure so that I can restore my book collection and preserve metadata. What would be the best way to do this? I have roughly 300 books so I am trying to avoid doing this manually. I am familiar with scripting if necessary. |
10-07-2013, 04:10 PM | #2 |
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The message is because you now have an empty Library, but calibre does not know it (says you have a Mobi file for that book)
First Make a BACKUP of the current (mostly empty) Library folder, just in case thing go belly up. ->Not tested<- be sure to have a backup Preferences Adding Books: Auto Merge Books:Overwrite Existing Duplicate formats (We know they don't really exist) APPLY Now Add your books using the Add Books Icon: <Pick the appropriate choice> You can do this in small steps. IMHO do a few, and see if the results for those please you |
10-11-2013, 01:18 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for the suggest, I tried this out and it managed to pick up about 35 books unfortunately. At this point I've decided to bite the bullet and simply redo everything. I think certain things are just difficult to recover from. I've got a backup of the 'bad' folder in case I want to try other ways of restoring to it.
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