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Originally Posted by adv_dp_fan
I know we can "work" on the copy in the Calibre database, just not moving it, but it has always been recommended that we don't touch it at all and work on a copy outside Calibre. Which may be a good suggestion as I think I hit a situation where the meta was out of sync once and the only way to fix was to delete the book from the library and re-import it.
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Metadata is stored in a central database, not in the files. So by working on the file, you do not run any risk of getting the metadata "out of sync". When you export (send to device/save to disk) a file from calibre the metadata in the exported copy is always updated to that in the central database.
And even if you do want to work on a private copy of a file, for whatever reason, that still does not mean that you have to store external copies of every file in your calibre library, only the file you are currently working on.
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Apple does want us to use iTunes to sync but they don't force you have have a separate copy. At least up until now as they were happy to use the copy in the Calibre database. This is how all of my music, apps and everything else iTunes syncs is currently handled as I don't use the "copy to iTunes library" option.
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See my previous post for the problems with this approach, regardless of a network backend.
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In my case, I have one copy on a backup drive and then one copy in Calibre which was also used by iTunes so unless I have a copy out to work on for some reason I really only have 2 copies. Now I will have at least 3.
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A backup is not a external copy that calibre is forcing you to have. Even if calibre did not exist, you would still backup your data.
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BTW, what happens with the unsupported sync with iDevice instead of the connect to iTunes method? Will that go away in this case or will that still be available but unsupported?
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I have no idea, GRiker will have to answer that.