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Originally Posted by cam.wieland
Sorry if something like this exists, but I've been looking around and haven't seen it:
I have a massive number of pdfs and ebooks on my computer (academic journals and things) and I'd like to save space by moving them to an external drive, but still be able to search for them in some sort of more sophisticated way than a text file with their names.
Is there/could there be some sort of plugin that allows for this? Maybe saves the titles and metadata for searching, but with a note that they're on a different (*and not always plugged in) drive?
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I think you can do what you want without any plugins. As I interpret your post what you want is to have a shadow of your library on your system drive. By a shadow I mean the catalogue - ie what you see in the book list, but not the format files (PDFs etc). This is doable - the catalogue (metadata) is held in a database file, its always named metadata.db, and it lives at the top level of all library folders - they are not very big, typically 10's of megabytes.
How many libraries do you have? There's a very simple solution if you only have one library and another more sophisticated solution for multiple libraries.
What OS are you using - Window, OS/X or Linux?
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