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Originally Posted by rsmerritt
Hi. I am new to this forum. I have been using Calibre and CC for about year between multiple devices. My library setup may be a bit different than most. I have upwards of three (3) main Calibre libraries that are each separately passworded on the Microsoft side. Each library has remote access with passwords. I have not found a way to either run multiple, independent versions of CC so I can work with each library independently (directory structures are different as well) or have a single CC instance that can be configured for multiple, unique libraries. It would appear that if we had a way to identify a library in CC and associate all settings with a given instance of a Calibre main library, this could be done. Each library today has between 2,500 and 5,000 books on various topics.
Thoughts?
Bob
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Unfortunately CC is not designed to handle multiple separate libraries, and changing that is far more work than I want to do.
One thing that some people do to handle both virtual and physical libraries is to create a custom column that names the library or libraries that a book is in. If you have multiple physical libraries then you add that column to each of them using the same column configuration information. You next add that column to CC's grouping drawer, giving you a list of libraries in the drawer. Long-pressing on one of the items (libraries) asks CC to show only books in that library. You can then use the rest of CC including the grouping drawer to explore that library. See our FAQ answer
Sorting, grouping, and searching tips, and in particular the 6th paragraph.
You can also use CC's file template system to choose different directory structures based on the above-suggested column. See the Advanced Techniques section of the FAQ answer
What can I use in a CC file name template?.
Finally, if you create multiple users on your device(s) then each user would have a separate instance of CC. Of course doing this comes with other costs of having multiple users.