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Originally Posted by septentrion
Thanks for your reply!
Yes, I do because my library is on Dropbox, not on the harddrive. It's never caused a problem before. And I save my library on other cloud storage services using the calibre function "save under..." (or something like that). I wasn't aware that running cloud services with calibre could cause troubles. Maybe I should just copy my library on my harddrive and use the cloud storage services just to save my library...
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As AnemicOak pointed out, Dropbox is only syncing the files that are on your hard drive. If not, you couldn't use them at all.
Maybe you had troubles before and just didn't notice them, maybe not -- either way, it's dangerous.
It shouldn't be a problem to keep your library in Dropbox, just do what I and many other people have learned to do -- pause Dropbox while you use calibre.
You can also get
fancy, and setup rotating incremental snapshots of your data, and copy that into Dropbox -- if you feel comfortable doing that.
There are different levels to keeping data safe and backed up.