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BookJunkieLI - been a while since I used XP, but if you use the installed edition of calibre then I think this should work; if you're using the portable edition then you'd need to make some adjustments.
If you have a desktop shortcut to start calibre, add
--with-library "<library path>" to the end of
Properties->Shortcut->Target **
You can get the
<library path> from Windows Explorer by opening the library folder and copying what's in the address bar. Make sure you wrap in it double quotes - so you should have something like this in Target
Code:
"C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe" --with-library "E:\CalibreData\StageLibrary"
Might be an idea to rename the shortcut to reflect the name of the library, eg in my example I would rename the shortcut from calibre.exe to StageLibrary; you can do that in
Properties->General.
You could copy the shortcut, then change the Target and shortcut name to refer to a different library - you'd then have two shortcuts that opened different libraries.
If you have multiple logons (eg husband and wife) then you will have to take that into account. I don't use desktop shortcuts, so I'm not sure which Desktop folder calibre puts the shortcut... the one for the user that did the install, or the one for the All Users pseudo user.
** if you don't have a desktop shortcut then you will have to create one; right button drag Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe to the desktop, select
Create shortcut here when you drop it.
Oh, you would probably want to stop future calibre installs creating a new 'calibre.exe' shortcut, you can do that by clicking the Advanced button in the Licence panel of install wizard - you should only need to that once.
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