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Originally Posted by MCSmarties
I must say that I don't find Calibre's "save to disk" feature all that useful. Why? Because it's a real PITA to import books back into calibre from such a folder.
It's much better to just make a manual copy of the calibre library altogether (copy-paste the entire folder) as a backup.
For me, the "save to disk" feature is only useful if you want to move to a different ebook manager, or to have some peace of mind if you fear that calibre will dissappear sometime...
Hence, I only do a "save to disk" backup once in a blue moon, whereas I manually copy my calibre library folder quite often.
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What an excellent idea!!!
I've found that when I highlight all the books in Calibre (over 350 + growing) and use the 'save to disk' function to save to my USB stick that it takes up to 3 hours for the save to finish.
I know - isn't that darn odd!!!
And I don't know why it takes that long, I can't work it out because I've tested saving other material like CDs to the same USB stick and they save in no time.
Next time I'll try saving the directory folder and see how I go.