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I have moved my library all around to various laptops/desktops to have a back up of my library but never from a windows 7 computer to a windows 8 computer. The problem is that I transferred everything just fine but the computer assigned the json file to some icook program that isn't even downloaded to the computer, ugh! So the question is how can I change the assigned program to open the file to Calibre and not the stupid icook program?
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JSon code shouldn't need to be opened, calibre will read the file directly for anything it needs to do. File associations like you are thinking of will only be used to determine what program to manually open and edit said file. And it is a bad idea to try editing any of that stuff yourself, unless you REALLY know what you are doing.
JSon is not an ebook filetype, so you don't need to touch it anyway. I assume you are speaking of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file? calibre uses that as a backup of database preferences, and will handle it all by itself. Nevertheless, if you are determined to open it, you can manually choose how to open any file; directions are here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a-type-of-file. Open it in Notepad or any other Text Editor. As a general rule, though, NEVER open or move or edit anything in the Calibre Library folder, since it may severely mess up your library. calibre expects to be solely in charge of anything you do there, and if you want to use your ebooks, you should let calibre handle it. Read an ebook? Fire up calibre, locate the library record, and click view. Transfer an ebook to your device? Use calibre send to device. Edit the metadata? Tell the new metadata to calibre. That's what it's there for, and it really does do the best job anyway. Last edited by eschwartz; 11-12-2013 at 12:54 AM. |
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I don't want to mess with it at all it is so not my thing. Here is the stitch: I downloaded Calibre to the new laptop (windows 8) everything went fine. I had all my files saved on a portable hard drive. Copied and pasted everything into the Calibre folder but nothing shows up in the program. That is a new one to me this method has always worked in the past. So I went looking to find out why it was happening. Nothing worked and my library still wasn't showing up in Calibre. I even uninstalled and reinstalled just to be sure that it wasn't a glitch of some kind still nothing worked. It was suggested to me that the problem might be in that json file that shows icook when you look at it. It is the only thing that is different so I figured it must be the problem. BTW when I double clicked the icon it took me to the icook program only a blank page. See below:
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DoctorOhh is right. When you first install calibre, it will create and open a blank library. You must manually switch to your old library, and afterward, calibre will default to opening the last used library. Switch to the location of the Calibre Library folder on your external hard drive or wherever it is now located, and use that folder as your library.
On the calibre manual, at: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....ter-to-another Quote:
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Yeah, unfortunately I already tried that and it was a no go. Just for giggles I tried again since the re-install and it still didn't work, sigh. It says that it already contains the new library. I'm going to back it up on my old PC again maybe it is something in the transfer. I've done it once already but this time I'll save it to a disc or use another portable hard drive.
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Here is the full section of the FAQ on moving libraries between computers. Edit: Just to be clear the problem you are experiencing has nothing to do with the json file or icook. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 11-12-2013 at 01:17 AM. |
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Calibre needs full access permissions to its library folder and contents. Pending on how the transfer was done the permissions might have been changed. It might be worth checking that all the files in the new library give Calibre full access rights.
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The current metadata.db is 126 KB, which is about the size of a brand-new db so that's probably the problem.
If that DOESN'T work, try this: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....n-app-is-blank Quote:
The books are organized as folder=book, each file=different format, which is what save-to-disk does anyway. All metadata gets read from metadata.opf, so that's good. If you have custom columns, set those up first, so the import adds the data for those columns in. |
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The icon for that iCook program that's associated itself with JSON files, is a bright shiny red apple. If you don't know what "iCook" is then it probably shouldn't be there - and it may be indicative of something you'd rather not have.
The json file in the library is not the only json file that calibre uses, there are several in the config directory, some plugins create them too. if iCook can read json files, it can probably write them too. I would run some standalone malware scanners such as MalwareWareBytes, Trend Micro Housecall, McAfee Stinger etc The CEO of Apple is Tim Cook. No... I'm not blaming Apple, malware writers and distributors have a warped perspective on life. BR |
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Thanks for the help and advice. I still don't know what happened. However, once I copied and pasted everything again it transferred correctly it did take a bit for me to get it into the new download of Calibre.
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I've recently installed the 64-bit version of Calibre on a laptop running Windows 8.1. I had no problem access the existing libraries. Doesn't matter what .json is assigned to. Calibre doesn't care and it works just fine.
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I'm not the most computer literate person around. I don't know what the problem was. It works now and thats all that matters, lol.
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