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Originally Posted by cybmole
bear in mind that google drive is not an actual local copy of a cloud - it's not like a sugar sync or dropbox folder . its a "fake" folder whose contents exist only in the cloud. ( there is an offline mode but it is off by default )
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It doesn't work like this for me. I have changed no option and with the exception of google docs files, all my data is stored locally.
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let me start that ball rolling. I have side by side, my local calibre library & my google drive copy. I am opening each author folder in both locations & checking the 4 digit numbers. I checked the 1st 3 authors & get 3 out of 3 matches. so I conclude no corruption, which is what I expected.
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Concluding no corruption on three samples is a bit like me concluding that all people in Paris are women (except me) because the last three people that went by my window were women.
I have personally had Google Drive change those numbers. It happened when there were two machines syncing the drive, but the library with the numbers was written by only one machine. I don't know why it did it at that time, but it was indisputable that a four digit number became a single digit. I no longer let my calibre library anywhere near GD for any purpose.
My position: a backup that might change behind your back, even though it apparently hasn't yet, is not a backup. It might be considered an archive, useable as eschwartz says to reconstruct a library by reimporting, but that is not a backup.