Empty Library

Samurai · 05-07-2022, 01:21 PM

Ok.

I opened Calibre today and my library was empty, I then looked up on my Books folder and everything was were. So my books are here, but my library in the app is empty.

I searched and searched, and tried to do restore from backup and it was successful but empty again.

So I searched from which file it restores, and found the folder and the backups in there were all created today. So that sucks.

So I may or may not have deleted the old "e-books" folder which contained my database? Which I think that's what happened and my Library is not showing.

(I may have thought months ago seeing that "e-books" folder that it's nothing since it was some KBs and deleted it, didn't think my Calibre library would be there since I thought the Calibre app was what was needed for the app to work along with a folder with all the books you import)

If so or not, please help me to get the library back. If there's a way I'm not thinking or if the library is there and I did something like created a new library or something.

theducks · 05-07-2022, 03:00 PM

Calibre lost track of where the Library was and created a new one in the current default location (this has changed over the years, so you real library was on a different path than used now days)
Right click The Library Icon: Switch/Create: Use Existing: <navigate to where the Authors folders , you found are>:OK

That should do it

Samurai · 05-08-2022, 09:14 AM

Yeap! That did it! All fixed.

Thanks a lot!

05-07-2022, 01:21 PM	#1
Samurai Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2016 Device: iPad (4th Gen)	Empty Library Ok. I opened Calibre today and my library was empty, I then looked up on my Books folder and everything was were. So my books are here, but my library in the app is empty. I searched and searched, and tried to do restore from backup and it was successful but empty again. So I searched from which file it restores, and found the folder and the backups in there were all created today. So that sucks. So I may or may not have deleted the old "e-books" folder which contained my database? Which I think that's what happened and my Library is not showing. (I may have thought months ago seeing that "e-books" folder that it's nothing since it was some KBs and deleted it, didn't think my Calibre library would be there since I thought the Calibre app was what was needed for the app to work along with a folder with all the books you import) If so or not, please help me to get the library back. If there's a way I'm not thinking or if the library is there and I did something like created a new library or something. Last edited by Samurai; 05-07-2022 at 01:24 PM.

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05-07-2022, 03:00 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,062 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre lost track of where the Library was and created a new one in the current default location (this has changed over the years, so you real library was on a different path than used now days) Right click The Library Icon: Switch/Create: Use Existing: <navigate to where the Authors folders , you found are>:OK That should do it

05-08-2022, 09:14 AM	#3
Samurai Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2016 Device: iPad (4th Gen)	Yeap! That did it! All fixed. Thanks a lot!

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