I appreciate the discussions and suggestions to make calibre multi-user and the difficulties to overcome when transforming calibre into a true networked client server architecture. These are recognized. But this discussion is off-topic and diverges from the main subject of the thread, which is not about multi user (the author is working on this) but about single user access to a networked drive.
So please let me repeat my observation in a different way: why has calibre problems to do simple file operarations on single files (the files and folders of the ebook data themselves) on a networked drive (or mapped -letter). Even so in a completely Win7 environment (so win7 client win7 server over network). I do not know any other software that does work on a local hardrive D:\ but not on a networked mapped network drive D:\. What is so special about calibre file I/O, please explain.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Calibre works fine on a network share IF you understand that it must ALWAYS be single user.
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Well, this is exactly the point: it is NOT working fine! Please test it yourself and post here what your findings are!