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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The solution is not to use cloud storage for your Calibre library. There are way too many issues that can cause problems and or loss of data. it's not recommended to do this and if you do and something goes wrong, it's your problem.
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Oh, you bundle of fun, you.
I have been keeping my libraries in Dropbox for years now, and the way to avoid problems is extraordinarily simple.
@Joy,
All I do is make sure I fully sync before running calibre, pause syncing while calibre is running, and fully sync after calibre is closed.
That avoids the two problems -- edit clashes with other computers, and edit clashes between the Cloud Sync client and calibre itself.
For added security, use a file syncing tool like rsync (unix) or MS SyncToy for Windows -- use it to
mirror your main library into your Cloud Storage.
As for importing your current FTP backup, import as per the screenshot, it will derive metadata from the metadata.opf backups (it was designed for this purpose).