First off, thanks so much to the developer for making this wonderful tool available! It's a magnificient piece of work.
I'm using Calibre portable. I just moved my Calibre Library from a the default location in the Calibre installation folder to my Dropbox folder on the same drive and partition ( C: ). It was a lot of books and it took quite a long time (which I don't quite understand. When moving on the same drive (and partition), then why actually physically moving the files?). I used the option "Calibre Library - Switch/create library... - and chose the Dropbox folder as "New location" with the option "Move current library to new location". But after restarting Calibre (portable version) it reverted back to using the old folder as the calibre library. It shows the list of all the books that were there at the time of moving the folder. However, since the files are not actually there anymore, when trying to view a book in this list, I just get the error "ERROR: cannot view - >bookname< has no available formats".
How do I set the default Calibre Library to the new Dropbox folder? I don't want to move all the files again. It took a looooong time for Dropbox to upload.
If I use "Calibre Library - Switch/create library... - and chose the dropbox folder as "New location" none of the three options make sense:
1) "Use the previously existing library at the new location". NO! The new location has all the books already - in fact it has more, as I added some more before restarting Calibre after moving the library.
2) "Create an empty library at the new location". NO! The new location has all the books already.
3) "Move current library to new location". NO! It's already done (well, at least the files themselves have been moved).
So what do I do from here? I really don't want to make Dropbox starting to do a lot of work again... If the easiest way is to do some registry editing, then just let me know. I've done that often before, but don't want to risk mucking things up if there's a proper way
Thanks in advance!
- Larry