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q345 · 05-23-2010, 04:05 AM

I've installed Calibre latest (0.6.54) version under Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and it works fine.

The only problem I have is that when I tried to move my e-book directory location from local hard drive to NAS ( which is mounted as -t cifs ) , calibre reported problems. I did a search on the web and found out that other people experienced this problem as well and the reason is the sqlite3 can't work with NAS.

I've tried (instead of moving e-book directory via preferences) to cheat namely,
I manually copied Calibre Library to NAS, then deleted directory Calibre Library from local harddrive and created the symbolic link to NAS directory with the same name. This doesn't work either.

I was wondering if somebody know the way to bypass this, is it possible to keep metadata.db on local hard drive but book themselves on NAS ?

05-23-2010, 04:05 AM	#1
q345 Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Keeping book on NAS but metadata.db on local (Ubuntu) I've installed Calibre latest (0.6.54) version under Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and it works fine. The only problem I have is that when I tried to move my e-book directory location from local hard drive to NAS ( which is mounted as -t cifs ) , calibre reported problems. I did a search on the web and found out that other people experienced this problem as well and the reason is the sqlite3 can't work with NAS. I've tried (instead of moving e-book directory via preferences) to cheat namely, I manually copied Calibre Library to NAS, then deleted directory Calibre Library from local harddrive and created the symbolic link to NAS directory with the same name. This doesn't work either. I was wondering if somebody know the way to bypass this, is it possible to keep metadata.db on local hard drive but book themselves on NAS ?