Thread: CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY Environment variable
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Old 11-11-2013, 02:03 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by huotg01 View Post
Windows 7

In fact, what is the best way to know for sure where are the configuration files actually used by Calibre ? My target configuration is on a networked drive and the one that seems to be used used is local to the server under [user]/AppData/roaming/calibre

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The location you give is the default, and what Calibre seems to revert to if it cannot find the location specified by the environment variable.

Calibre files on a network drive are not officially supported, although in many cases they can work OK - particularly if mapped to a drive letter in Windows. I always hold my configuration locally albeit in a different location to the default (I actually use a folder under DropBox so I get it backed up).

Having said that I am surprised it does not work if you have the network location mapped to a drive letter. I would expect trying to use a UNC path to be more problematical.
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