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Find which files not in calibre library?
I have many books on my local drive. Some of them are not yet in Calibre library. How can i find which ones need to be added?
I made the csv list of calibre books and that gives me the metadata book titles and calibre file names. I have the list of file names from the local hard drive directory. These names are not the same and I can't compare them effectively. Is there a way to get Calibre to provide the original file name that was imported? This would be the best option I can think of. What other options are there? Thank you in advance! |
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If you haven't changed the titles or authors in Calibre, you can just import all your books and then use the Find Duplicates plugin to find any duplicates.
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Yeah thought of that. Trying to avoid reloading a large inventory of books if I can. Any ways I can do a reconciliation? I'm very good with excel. Just need a clean way to map between calibre and the ebook files I'm importing. This has never come up before?
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Import into a New Library, then use Find Duplicates: LIBRARY DUPLICATES:<the end target Library>.
Delete those(marked) from the intake Library, then select the remaining: Copy to Library:<target Library> As always with any BULK operation: BACKUP the main Library |
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