Background: I had a small library on my laptop that I am slowly learning how to maintain. It has about 500 books, so to gain space on my tiny drive, I moved it to a external drive, which, on my system is F:\ Making the library path in Calibre F:\Calibre Library. All is working fine. Do not wish to alter this library at all.
Now, my husband's library, with metdata.db etc. is intact on another external drive. I would like to be able to open it with Calibre and clean up his disastrous spelling and indexing for him. I feel confident enough now with Calibre that I can do this. (He has some authors in there three times spelled three different ways. Do not even ask me what I think of his iTunes music mess.) There are a lot of duplicates and mine are better tagged etc. I just want to leave his on what would be G:\ if I open that library from Calibre.
I do not want to combine the two libraries. So, in Calibre, I clicked on the Library Icon, and selected Switch/Create. It appears that IF an alternative library exists, I can switch to it but the syntax of the sentence choice confuses me:
Does
Use Existing Library at the New Location
mean use the library that already exists at this new location that I entered in the path to it, or does it mean, use my original library at the new location?
If I assume it means the former it would be helpful if the choice on the radio button said something more robust, like, do you have another library that you want to open? And if so where is it? And do you want to leave your existing library alone and just switch to the new one?
