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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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darc3231908Author
Participant
March 25, 2013

Hello,

Yeah, the manifest.xml file is still there.

I can open books in ADE and I can add them like usual - but it is like

I've just started it from scratch.

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sjpt
Inspiring
March 26, 2013

How big is manifest.xml?

It should be (very approximately) 20 lines plus 20 lines per book.

If it is very short, ADE must have corrupted it somehow, and I am afraid you library organization is probably lost unless you have a backup.

If it is quite long, then either ADE is ignoring it for some reason, or it slightly corrupted and might be recoverable.

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