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darc3231908
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March 25, 2013
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My library is completely missing from Adobe Digital Editions

  • March 25, 2013
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I opened ADE today only to find that the shelves I made are suddenly missing ---- my whole library is empty. Everything that I had in ADE is gone. The Digital Editions folder still exists in My Documents, but nothing is on ADE.

Why did this happen and how can I get my library and shelves back?

Thanks for your help.

Darlene

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sjpt
Inspiring
March 25, 2013

The Digital Editions folder still exists in My Documents,   Does it still have the various books in it, as .epub files?

What happens if you try to open one of the books in ADE?  (ctrl-O and navigate to book, or drag-drop book from Explorer onto ADE)

You should havea file 'C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Digital Editions\manifest.xml'

which contains information about books and shelves.  Is that there? 

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ancientduck
Participant
May 2, 2017

I just ran into the same problem but with the prior response was able to recover.

I offer this for any others who might come this way.

I downloaded an epub (to be opened in Digital Editions); When it did not open DE, I tried to open it (from my download list); at that point it appeared in DE (but none of my other books were there [50+ books]).  Furthermore when I tried to close DE, it refused to let me close saying that the book had not been copied to my library; trying to copy to my (apparently non-existent) library had no effect.  It was starting to appear that the only way out was to completely shut down my entire computer system!

However, I found this forum post and went in search of My Digital Editions folder; I had a manifest folder but no manifest .xml file.

Nothing here indicated how to re-create this file.  In desperation I clicked on one of the epub files and then watched in amazement as the hung version of DE closed, then re-opened with the epub I had selected.  Existing DE (no problem), I check again and the manifest.xml had been recreated.  No further problems from that point on!

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