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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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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They were 3 epub files.
I already used an unlocker tool to delete them. And replaced them from a backup. Problem solved.
I get the feeling it wasn't Skydrive that locked them after all, because I rebooted with skydrive deactivated and the system still gave me the same errors I mentioned before. I could not open, move or delete the epubs from within calibre, nor from outside calibre.
But all is well now.
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You've probably been using it with one-at-a-time files like word processing files, images, spreadsheets etc.
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No I have always used Skydrive with my library. Actually that was the main reason I started using SKydrive.
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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.
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But does skydrive not just check which files have been used/changed/opened (timestamp?) and then sync them? So, if I change a book file would not all files involved, whether it be cover, opf or db etc. always get synched?
I always thought I understood the process reasonably well, but now I'm starting to get doubts.
