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Originally Posted by adoby
Also it may be dangerous to have other programs working on the calibre library while calibre is running. If something serious should happen to the library, the synced copy of the library may not be fully/immediately usable and a restore becomes unnecessarily difficult. I recommend that you shut down the sync software while you have calibre running.
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Originally Posted by blaenk
Thanks for the response. I'm using dropbox which unfortunately doesn't have any such feature as far as I'm aware. Thanks for the heads up, but I don't think I have to worry about it corrupting anything thankfully. If that ever did happen I could just revert to the previously saved version. That said, it's not bad to keep in mind, thanks.
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can pause Dropbox syncing and I
highly recommend that you do while working in Calibre. To pause Dropbox simply click on the little icon in your system tray, then click the gear at the top right of the menu that appears. One of the options is to pause syncing. Follow the same steps to resume syncing.
I've been using Dropbox with Calibre for several years and while I've never had a problem if I'm just browsing or exporting to my reader I always pause syncing if I'm editing metadata or doing imports. Not doing so will invariably lead to 'lost' files. Thankfully I've never had any major corruption issues the few times I've forgotten to pause syncing. And I do run the Check Library every few weeks to be sure.
If you're just using Dropbox as a backup, and not because you need/want to access Calibre from multiple locations, then I recommend a setup like @eschwartz suggested. If you do need to access from multiple locations something similar could probably be setup, I just haven't gotten around to figuring out the logistics of it myself.