AKICIDW: Any Calibre mavens out there?
Apr. 20th, 2020 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelWhen I installed Calibre on the new computer, I accepted all the defaults.
When I moved over the files a couple of days later, my 900+ books in Calibre didn't show up. Turns out that's because I didn't use the default for my book files back on my old computer. The files are there, but Calibre isn't seeing them. Possibly I could tell Calibre to use the other location, but the default location is actually more sensible. (The old one was buried a couple of levels down.)
I discovered by experimentation that moving a book folder from the old location to the new location and restarting Calibre doesn't make that book show up.
My instincts, which are not necessarily to be trusted, say I should do a mass import of books from the old location to the new location, then delete the old location entirely. But I've always done imports one or two books at a time, and I'm not sure if all those author folders will sort themselves out properly.
Any advice before I try it?
ETA: Migration successfully accomplished, thanks totimill.
When I moved over the files a couple of days later, my 900+ books in Calibre didn't show up. Turns out that's because I didn't use the default for my book files back on my old computer. The files are there, but Calibre isn't seeing them. Possibly I could tell Calibre to use the other location, but the default location is actually more sensible. (The old one was buried a couple of levels down.)
I discovered by experimentation that moving a book folder from the old location to the new location and restarting Calibre doesn't make that book show up.
My instincts, which are not necessarily to be trusted, say I should do a mass import of books from the old location to the new location, then delete the old location entirely. But I've always done imports one or two books at a time, and I'm not sure if all those author folders will sort themselves out properly.
Any advice before I try it?
ETA: Migration successfully accomplished, thanks to
timill.
