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Originally Posted by Iskariot
That seems madness. Why not just copy to a temp dir before synching?
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Because that would add both overhead, and further complications. The more one tries to work around what are fundamentally primitive operating and file systems the deeper becomes the hole in which you find yourself (I'm speaking for the people who write Skydrive, Dropbox etc)
Also see below - these services are designed to be used with
one-at-a-time files.
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Originally Posted by Iskariot
Oh well, from now on I will make sure Skydrive is disabled.
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That's the best and only way to safely use calibre in conjunction with cloud synching.
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Originally Posted by Iskariot
Still weird though that these three files are totally unusable even after rebooting.
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Where & what are these three files - when you say they are unusable can you see them in Windows Explorer and view their properties?
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Originally Posted by Iskariot
Also, I have been using Skydrive for a few years now and never encountered problems like these before.
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You've probably been using it with
one-at-a-time files like word processing files, images, spreadsheets etc.
The basic unit of processing in calibre is a book, which is a folder with more than one file - a cover, an opf file and one or more format files (epub, pdf etc). In addition to that, all the book files are tied together via the Catalogue database - metadata.db.
Consequently its the whole library that needs to be kept in synch, not just individual files within it. Products like Dropbox and Skydrive cannot cope with such scenarios, and IMO, nor should they be expected to do so.
BR