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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
Hmm, I hate to upgrade right now, I'm in the midst of an 11,000 ebook cataloguing/culling process. (Why I start these things, I have no idea) I'm not unwilling, I'm just concerned in case I lose my elibrary with those 11000 ebooks in there - it took me 3 days of importing to get them in there.
I back up faithfully, I'm paranoid about losing stuff.
Thanks for the reply!
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...Yes, middle of an inventory is NOT the time to experiment on a production base.
What I'd do would be:
- 1) Create a new, test user (OS-level)
- 2) Install Calibre 1.7 in that user's $HOME/bin/Calibre (or your OS equivalent), and any addon you have
- 2b) Copy your own $HOME/.calibre (or %APPDATA%\Calibre, or... I have no idea where it's at on OSX) settings to that temporary user. Not strictly necessary I guess, but the closest to your prod environment, the better
- 3) Copy your base to the temp user's $HOME/library
- 4) Point 1.7 to that copy
- 5) Test to your heart's content
- 6) Determine, after the tests, if 1.7 is worth upgrading
- 7) Back to your normal user, backup, upgrade (or not), remove your test user.
Hop, done.
I think it'd take me and my ~1300 books about an hour or two. But probably more, because I have the unfortunate habit of being easily distracted by new toys, and 1.7 compared to 0.9.33 would be an awfully distracting toy...