Just starting with Calibre. Great, great software.
Being a newbie I might be missing something about Calibre's configuration, so please be patient.
I installed Calibre on my laptop, but created the Library folder on an external usb drive where I keep all my music, movies and books.
If the drive is disconnected, Calibre can't access the library and actually needs to have a new library created before running.
To be able to browse my library even if I'm away from the external drive I found a workaround.
I've managed to do this by copying the
metadata.db and
metadata_db_prefs_backup.json files to a new library folder on my laptop.
Calibre opens the library correctly even if it is not possible to open the actual ebooks.
The problem is I must keep updating these files everytime I add a new book to Calibre.
I wonder if is possible to synchronize these files in some way or if there's a way to choose where Calibre saves these metadata files independently from the actual books folders.
