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Originally Posted by Ortep
I use Windows Live Mesh...then you don't have to remember to sync. You can assign every folder you want on your computer tot the mesh. And it is 5 Gig for free
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Windows Live Mesh is fine so long as *all* of your computers are running Window 7 and/or Windows Vista. You're out of luck if you're using XP, a Mac OS or Linux OS. Dropbox works on all 3 platforms and all OS versions, as far as I'm aware.
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Originally Posted by Joanna
I've decided to use Dropbox for that. It works well, you just need to remember to sync everything after any changes before you sync on the other computer. The biggest drawback is that the size of your Dropbox is very limited (if you use the free version).
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Dropbox should sync automatically unless a)you have syncing paused; b)a computer turned off; or c)you are not connected to the internet. Once you reconnect to the internet or the computer is turned back on Dropbox will automatically sync with it. *You* shouldn't have to do anything to get Dropbox to sync.
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Originally Posted by Leclerc
We have 3 x laptops in the house the library sits on an external drive, whilst I manage the library from Laptop 1, I want to put Calibre on the other 2 Laptops. When I have updated the library I want Calibre to only upload any new additions to the other Laptops, can this be done??
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Welcome to the forum, L!
I'm going to assume that the external hard drive you're using is a portable drive rather than a networked drive. ie only one laptop at a time can see it vs they can all see it at the same time via a wired/wireless network. Based on that assumption you could either a)Install Calibre Portable on the hard drive and just run Calibre from there no matter which laptop it's attached to, or b) install Calibre on each machine and then just make sure it's pointing to that drive for the library. This option does mean that if the drive isn't attached when you open Calibre it will ask you for the location of the library and you'll either need to attach the drive or create/point to a local library.
Otherwise it sounds like what you want to do is install Calibre on each laptop with a local library and then update each library individually with data from the other libraries. This is really not a good idea and you will end up with corrupted metadata, books in one library but not the other... Believe me you will end up with a very big mess in short order.
Your best options are either Calibre Portable on the external drive itself or putting the library on Dropbox and accessing it that way. Each way has its' good points and its' bad points but it's up to you to decide which will work best for your situation.
Beth