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Originally Posted by millan
I appreciate your kind help and thank you eschwartz,
I'm kind of relieved that I could continue to drag and drop the new items
I have also installed the FreeFileSync now.
It's a great suggestion.
On the other hand, I have a question on copying through Calibre:
After I copy the latest entries in calibre and copy through calibre interface,
I seem to get "cleaner" Lib2
ie: Less number of folders (Perhaps all the empty folders are left in Lib1
So the total byte size of the Lib1 and Lib2 are exactly the same after copying although I could see less number of folders etc in Lib2
does that mean copying items from Lib1 to Lib2 gives a cleaner library all
together if done through calibre interface?
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Copying through the library interface is no cleaner than keeping a synced backup (e.g. through FreeFileSync) -- the difference is that copying through calibre only transfers select items, and additionally will not copy any junk files which Check Library reports as not in the database.
File-syncing programs just copy the whole library folder.
So if Check library gives a clean bill of health then there should be no empty folders?
Either way, empty folders at least are not a big problem, all they cost is an inode (or NTFS equivalent) which is pretty cheap. They do make a visual mess, though.