[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Why use symbolic links? Look at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ment-variables

@PeterT : Firstly because I clean forgot about the CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH

And that's probably because I have several libraries for which I split the database from the books, in that scenario I found the Env Variable method cumbersome. I keep the database files in a single folder with names that reflect the library folder names thus.

c:\_CalibreData
    Databases
        _Empty.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Empty\metadata.db
        _Journals.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Journals\metadata.db
        _Main.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Main\metadata.db
        _Media.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Media\metadata.db
        _Stage.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Stage\metadata.db
        _Test.db <<== d:\_CalibreLibraries\_Test\metadata.db

On Windows/NTFS at least, the source file and the symlink do not have to have the same name. And, IMO, keeping them all in one place is good housekeeping. The end result means I can switch libraries normally.

BR