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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
That would make for a much bigger database (metadata.db) as it would then need to store full paths. The risk of losing files gets bigger (e.g. user deletes files, renames files/folders, moves files to a different location, network drives get disconnected, etc). There's also the issue of what to name and where to store converted copies, and backup metadata and covers.
There's already several threads regarding this. Suffice to say, you're not meant to consider the files inside calibre's library folder as files. They're really more of an extension of calibre's database.
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yeah i realize this just thought it might have been available guess not