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mitch13 · 10-13-2011, 04:22 AM

I have been fooled for quite some time. I run Calibre from my 500Gb plug-in drive. This has worked great as I use it on my laptop and on another PC. I was a bit slow in recognizing that there was a difference between records on the laptop compared to my PC. It is only a small variation so did not notice it until this week when I saw that records that I had added to my laptop did not show up on my PC!!
I have been searching my laptop to find the Calibre library but cannot identify where it is coming from. At the moment I did not connect my USB drive and loaded Calibre. Therefore I need to find out which file it is using. I have several backups of my library and these are in folders called 'Calibre Backup' with a sub folder which is a copy of the Calibre library. Can I tell from within Calibre where it is getting its library?
If I can identify it is there anything that I can do to merge the libraries leaving out duplicates?

I have a very large library as I use it for both ebooks and also my 'Dead Tree Books'

HELP!!

mitch13

10-13-2011, 04:22 AM	#1
mitch13 Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Queensland, Australia Device: Appraising the market	Finding where Calibre is loading its library I have been fooled for quite some time. I run Calibre from my 500Gb plug-in drive. This has worked great as I use it on my laptop and on another PC. I was a bit slow in recognizing that there was a difference between records on the laptop compared to my PC. It is only a small variation so did not notice it until this week when I saw that records that I had added to my laptop did not show up on my PC!! I have been searching my laptop to find the Calibre library but cannot identify where it is coming from. At the moment I did not connect my USB drive and loaded Calibre. Therefore I need to find out which file it is using. I have several backups of my library and these are in folders called 'Calibre Backup' with a sub folder which is a copy of the Calibre library. Can I tell from within Calibre where it is getting its library? If I can identify it is there anything that I can do to merge the libraries leaving out duplicates? I have a very large library as I use it for both ebooks and also my 'Dead Tree Books' HELP!! mitch13