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Originally Posted by irrationalJohn
While it no doubt seems like a simple and fool proof procedure to you, you are after all the developer and thus not completely objective.
As someone already mentioned above, this does not always work reliably. Sometimes ... and I have no idea when or why ... Calibre does not remove the reference to the old library. Instead an "empty" database is created in the "old" directory.
To approach this from another direction, if it's so "simple", why not just add "Rename Library" and "Delete Library" functions to Calibre? How hard could it be? 
-irrational john |
Methinks itimpi may have hit upon the problem. In the future I will try changing libraries before changing the name of it. Options to delete and change the name of libraries would be nice.
Don't be so hard on Kovid. There are thousands of configurations out there and it is impossible to anticipate every one that might intoduce an element of wonkiness to an otherwise simple process. Or, as is possible in this case, have a normally desireable feature sneak up and bite one in the backside when implementing another feature. Calibre is still being developed and there will be rocky moments in its development. At least, once a problem is identified, the fix usually comes in a week or two instead of the year or more I've seen with high priced commercial programs.