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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Create a new empty library then right click the add books button and choose add books one per folder and add your old library.
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Hi, Kovid, thanks!
Just to make sure I understand the procedure you recommend, do you think I should do this with both my backup and rebuilt library into one empty new library? Or just the rebuilt one and then import it into the backup? Or do it to both and then import one into the other?
In case it matters, the rebuilt library has a substantially greater number of items, including a lot of scholarly papers with faulty metadata. The backup has more of the things I care most about (the books), and has reliable metadata for the books it contains.
I think this teaches me that Dropbox is not the right sync approach for me. First, I have a bunch of other things in Dropbox, not just my calibre library, so turning off synch frequently seems likely to cause me trouble. Second, I am interested in exploring the calibre web server (mainly for use with a windows tablet which is my main book reader but which has neither wireless capacity nor enough storage for my whole library) which, as I understand it, requires that calibre be left running on the host computer.
Do you have a preferred or recommended approach to maintaining synchronized local copies of one's library across multiple machines?
Again, many, many thanks.
Peace & joy, Andrew