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Hi,
I've had several PDF books/articles catalogued in Books, and now they are all completely gone (all but 1!) in Big Sur.
I use iCloud, and they were synced there as well, as I could see these same files on my phone or iPad.
Is this expected behavior? Where have my files gone?

thanks,
Alex

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Posted by

asiufy

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For some time. I could not fix the issue and found the solution today. Go to System Settings -> Apple Id -> iCloud ->
iCloud Drive -> Apps Syncing to iCloud Drive -> Switch on BooksApps Using iCloud -> Show All -> Switch on Books
For sure you need to be logged-in with your apple id in the Books app etc.

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hackToxa

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Agreed, NOT working for me either. Everything is gone in books on Big Sur. Don't see the option in iCloud on Mac Big Sur. Also I have tried everything in the settings for the book app.

Posted by

CRimsonEagle

Same here, They are there but neither the book or the miniature gets downloaded at any point.

Posted by

andresbravog

Any issue about this problem? The same happens to me too. PDF are there on my iPad, but on my mac the name is there with an empty cover and the download doesn't start. No way to access them.

Posted by

plaur

I’ve the same problem.Many books in iCloud but I can’t download on my Mac.How fix it?

Posted by

giovdigua

The same issue here. With one exception. Now iBooks displays some files that clearly had been deleted years ago. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Posted by

Domitori

Same problem here. Books added on mac does not sync to icloud. No icloud settings for books available? Big sur 11.1 on Macmini 2018

Posted by

dkmj

updated on macOS Big Sur 11.1 and still have same problem.

Posted by

Olivier_Montpellier

Finally I just discovered today a new checkbox on preferences iCloud for books and everything came back to normal.

Posted by

Olivier_Montpellier

I figured it out. I had books synced under my iCloud and books still wasn't syncing. What fixed it for me was opening books, toggling the store tab, and then authorizing my computer to purchase books.

Posted by

nick_tortillla

Had the same problem. For me it also helped to go to a store page in the books app and download any of the free Apple manuals to trigger the authorization. Right after i signed in the downloads started.

Posted by

peterstoeckl

I also had this problem. The issue was that I expected Books on MacOS to just "work", meaning automatically know it's me using the app. That was not the case.

Simple fix: Open Books, go to the Store tab in the menu toolbar, then click Sign In.

Posted by

lmayliffe

I'm having a huge issue with the books app on macOS Monterey where I can't open my pdfs and sometimes even ebooks files, when I tap on a book twice to open it. It showed running number above for importing e.g. importing 15 of 15 and the numbers keep rising to thousands (i don't have thousands of books obvouisly).i tried resetting , bluh bluh bluh and nothing worked .pls help

Posted by

SUHAIB_AL_RUMI

I'm also having same problem as SUHAIB_AL_RUMI - I see most of documents, but when double clicking them, nothing happens - tried logging-off etc but nothing helped.

Posted by

Memphis264

I am experiencing exactly the same problems as SUHAIB_AL_RUMI and Memphis264. I tried to open pdfs by double clicking on them, but it does not work at all.

Posted by

Guldana

I too had same problem and this worked for me (Monterey OS).. try and see

System Preferences --> Apple ID --> Options - iCloud Drive --> Check on Books in Documents tab

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Prashanthgonti