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Originally Posted by chaley
I looked at the code and the column alignment is stored in the metadata.db file in the library.
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- that confirms what I thought I had seen. When in your initial response you indicated it was in configuration folder, I assumed I must be misremembering or misinterpreting what I saw.
When I started using calibre I had the idea to use the alignment of Title and Author as a means of giving me a spatial clue as to the current library, - eg left/left would be Main (regular books), left/centre would be Journals, centre/centre would be Media etc.
But I found that if I changed the alignment of Authors in Journals to 'centre', the realignment of the Authors column propagated itself to Main and Media etc. So I gave up on the idea, on the assumption that the alignment must be a global setting rather than a library setting - despite what my eyes were telling me.
The propagation seems to occurs if I switch from a library where Author column_alignment has a value (centre or right) in its library preferences to a library where the Author column has no value - i.e. it's left-aligned by default.
I can avoid the propagation if I forego use of the library switch feature, and instead always open calibre using the
--with-library option and stop it before opening with another library - but I choose not to do that
Perhaps this is another defect that's been lurking long since
BR