Thread: Does Save To Disk replace older files with files that have newer metadata?
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Old 10-01-2011, 11:22 AM   #3
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STD
will overwrite
That's good.

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will not delete old files that no longer exist because the (folder) name changed or were deleted from the Library.
Not good.

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A FULL backup should just copy the entire Library Folder with Calibre NOT RUNNING (to avoid any file locking issues).
That's what I'll do and recommend then in next Workflow revision. For some strange reason earlier I forgot about just copying the library folder in the OS instead of using STD, though I've done it before. Good caveat — I never thought to have calibre NOT RUNNING at the time of OS library copy.

Thanks

Edit: What about the Modified column? What do people generally use it for?
Last edited by unboggling; 10-01-2011 at 11:30 AM. Reason: Added question re Modified column
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