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Originally Posted by Adoby
To make sure the calibre library is not corrupted the linked files would have to be read only.
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If you change the attributes of a file in a symlink folder, the attribute is also changed in the target folder - this is true on Windows, on Linux, on OS/X. Why - because the file is the identical
inode in both folders.
A consequence of making the files in a book folder read only would be that Calibre, Format Editors such as Sigil, Word, Notepad++ etc and image editors like Gimp, Irfanview etc will not be able to update the opf, the format files or the covers due to permission faults
I guess one could run a script that set the read only attribute off on all the files in all the libraries before starting calibre - as I said one could, but not this one, thanks.
It could be done with ACLs that set different permissions for different user accounts, then one could spend ones time logging in and out of different user accounts to protect oneself from oneself - same as last time, one could, but not this one, thanks.
BR