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DMee · 09-07-2011, 07:55 AM

OK, weird one here.

I have my calibre library on dropbox and all was fine until I turned on a laptop I haven't used in a while - Dropbox set off updating/downloading thousands of files - fine, but I noticed it was UPLOADING hundreds of files too??

I can only think these will be books that I have previously edited and this computer is thinking that, as they don't exist it needs to upload them??? Weird...

Anyhow, it would appear I now potentially have hundreds of files there that are not needed.

So I thought..... if I move the library within Calibre then wipe Dropbox folders, then move back.... would that work????

Or do I have to "Save to Disc", wipe Calibre library, re-import??

Or should I just live with the fact that there's crud files in the directories :-)

09-07-2011, 07:55 AM	#1
DMee Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Stockport, UK Device: ipad, iphone, kindle	Clean up crud in Library folders OK, weird one here. I have my calibre library on dropbox and all was fine until I turned on a laptop I haven't used in a while - Dropbox set off updating/downloading thousands of files - fine, but I noticed it was UPLOADING hundreds of files too?? I can only think these will be books that I have previously edited and this computer is thinking that, as they don't exist it needs to upload them??? Weird... Anyhow, it would appear I now potentially have hundreds of files there that are not needed. So I thought..... if I move the library within Calibre then wipe Dropbox folders, then move back.... would that work???? Or do I have to "Save to Disc", wipe Calibre library, re-import?? Or should I just live with the fact that there's crud files in the directories :-)