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Originally Posted by mastermindg
Thanks for all the input!!
Just to clarify...My concern is not for disk space (I've got 6TB available), it's for unnecessary use of disk space. It's not the cost of the disk space...it's the principle of it.
Example.....
I use an application to index my movie collection ( 800 GB). This application allows me to search my movies in a variety of ways including by multiple actors, directors, etc. It also allows me to chose how I'd like to view the movie. But it does NOT require me to duplicate my collection locally. I think most people would stop using it if it did.
In summary: The idea that replication is somehow a function of indexing is absurd. That's like saying that to search the web you'd need to COPY it and then extrapolate it. If this was the case we wouldn't be having this conversation for another 20 years.
I hope that this application can progress beyond the need to "meddle" with a physical file-system. It would be more useful if it could.
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I have 1TB on my machine that is still largely unused (that will change once I start ripping my videos) so I'm keeping the original files "just in case." Yes, it is unnecessary use of disk space (unless you look at it as a back up) but if I'm not using the space anyway, then so what? Once I need the space, I'll either delete the originals or transfer them to an external drive. Another point to consider is calibre's Save to Disk feature will allow you to save your calibre library using any filename format you want so if you ever decided to switch from calibre to something else, you can replace your original library.