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Originally Posted by sasilk
I have a nice, newly formatted, dedicated external drive that I want to move my Calibre files to, but when I ask Calibre to move the library to the new location in the root of the drive it fails with a "Location is not empty" message. I'm guessing that it's detecting the hidden system files there and that's what's causing the error.
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Generally speaking moving your library to the root directory of any drive isn't advisable, but I can see why you might want to devote an entire external drive to your library. If you want to use calibre to move the library just point it to a new directory on that drive and you shouldn't get the error message. Having your library in a folder other than root will allow you to put more than one library on the drive. I have two a working library and a finished library.
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Originally Posted by sasilk
I can get around it by manually copying the files across and then pointing Calibre to the 'new' library, but is there a better way to approach this?
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There is no better way if you want it in the root directory and there are other files there.
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Originally Posted by sasilk
In either case, having the app tell a user that an ostensibly empty directory (drive) can't be used because it isn't empty is bound to cause some confusion and frustration. At the very least, a better error message would be useful.
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Maybe this can be changed, but the error message has been there for a year and your the first to post confusion/frustration with its message. You might be the first to try to move it to the root of a drive. I'll let the developers voice their opinion about the possibility of changing the message.
Good Luck.