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Oops - help needed, copying books back

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Ok, I made a little mistake, and before I mess up compleatly was wondering if you could help me get back my library.

I was just making another copy of my library in windows, so had a new folder open and did a select all inside the original library

And dropped it into the new folder....oh wait I should have right-clicked and "Copied" here instead

So I cancel the "Move" before its barley started

I then select those files that had moved across to new folder and copy and past them back into the original.

All is well again, or so I thought, wasn't until much later that I realise that about 1000 or so books have no format inside calibre

I think something has gone terribly wrong so I check database, then do a restore of it, still missing...then while holding tight to whats left of my sanity I browse around in windows in the library.....It's then that I realise what a total balls up I made and what I did with those thousand books.

When pasteing them back in the library, I accidently pasted them INTO an authors folder Old A. J. Jacobs now has a big chunk of my books :smack::o

I'm thinking it would be all right to just copy the books back to the root of the library in windows, while calibre is closed.

Q - Is this the best way of doing this?
Sorry for the long post

It's ok to laugh, but only a little.

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