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Old 10-28-2012, 04:06 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by drjenkins View Post
On second thought, maybe I do use "something like Dropbox". My U:\ drive is mapped to a network share on my LAN. If I repeat the above test on a library located on a local hard drive 0.9.4 works as expected. At least in my case it appears that 0.9.4 has an issue with mapped drives.
0.9.4 uses hard links when changing title/author, for performance, apparently hard links dont work with whatever network filesystem you're using. Even worse, the windows CreateHardLink function appears to be failing silently. Sigh. I'll add an explicit check to ensure the hardlink was created for the next release, which should take care of the problem, but generally speaking, you should not put your calibre library on a network share, network filesystems are broken in lots of different ways.
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