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Originally Posted by cybmole
that makes sense, so why not just keep everything as-is. A good syncing program will only take a few seconds to spot that nothing much has changed so your re-synching speed should be unaffected, and like you say - ebooks don't take much space ?
syncing: i use freeware freefilesync. When I re-synch my book or my mp3 collection it only needs a few seconds to deduce that 99% of files have not changed since the last sync. (the synchromagic shareware solution that I used to use was much slower at that ).
if you split your library into two, by format, then you will duplicate much of your metadata & thus using more space ?
as a test, I'll time running freefilesync for my calibre library, and synching to 2 backup locations: dropbox and to another external drive location. So, i launch the program - there is a a few seconds wait for the external drive to spin up then it counts up to ~28,000 items checked, and copies a few recent changes, all in ~30 secs. That's for a 2+ Gb calibre library which holds a mix of formats
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I've been actually thinking about going back to having them all lumped together. The only time I'm concerned about the time and space is when syncing to my ditzy netbook, which I only use for travel and there space is definitely limited and a concern. So that's why I originally decided to split up the books. But it's starting to be a hassle in other ways, so the space saved on the netbook might end up taking a backseat to all else.
And another big endorsement for
FreeFileSync, I've been using it for a long time now and I absolutely love it. I've tried probably most of the free syncing programs out there and FreeFileSync is just the best in every way possible... speed, ease of setting it up, able to set various tasks and then run them with Windows Task Scheduler if you choose, it's just superb. I can't recommended it enough to anyone looking for a file syncing program. I don't even think there's a better paid option out there.