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Originally Posted by MuckyMuck
The problem occurs when I try to introduce a second computer. This was not problem when I used SugarSync, but SkyDrive does things a bit differently and I have not been able to get it to work.
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I doubt it works much different.
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Originally Posted by MuckyMuck
Unfortunately I have not been able to get the above to work. On computer B, when I try to change the location of the library and point to the cloud drive, calibre complains that I must choose an empty folder.
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You have to wait for your entire library to be downloaded from the cloud. If there was a library file (metadata.db) in the root of the library directory your pointing to it would work fine.
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Originally Posted by MuckyMuck
What would be nice is if I could just tell Calibre the location of an existing calibre library and have it automatically "rebuild" the library locally on that running instance. Am I making any sense here? Anyone have any idea if this sort of thing is doable? Thanks in advance.
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Follow the directions BetterRed stated and it should work.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's also worth noting that Calibre is not "network aware", and using remote drives for your Calibre library can result in Bad Things happening.
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Nice advice, but there is no reason to believe any network drive is involved. Most folks have their Skydrive on their local c:\ drive.
That said, you are correct the act of any cloud drive actively syncing files as they change can cause hiccups when upgrading, doing bulk metadata updates or bulk conversions. When I do any of the things with my library in Dropbox I pause syncing of Dropbox until the upgrade, bulk metadata updates or bulk conversions are completed.