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chrisparker · 01-10-2012, 05:18 AM

I use Dropbox to store my Calibre library so it's available to all my machines.

Since it's a bad idea to run more than one copy of Calibre at a time, would it be possible for Calibre to check, at start-up, whether the metadata.db file is open and then warn the user that the library is already in use? Would this be useful?

01-10-2012, 05:18 AM	#1
chrisparker Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 48014 Join Date: May 2011 Location: London, UK Device: iPad Air 4, iPad mini 7, Kobo Libra Colour, Kobo Forma, Kobo Aura One	Test for Calibre open on another computer I use Dropbox to store my Calibre library so it's available to all my machines. Since it's a bad idea to run more than one copy of Calibre at a time, would it be possible for Calibre to check, at start-up, whether the metadata.db file is open and then warn the user that the library is already in use? Would this be useful?