Again, I appreciate the response. I don't mean to imply it magically acted this way on its own.
Yet, to reiterate, I am not knowingly synching the library
at all. I am also not on a network or shared drive—that's a good catch, I could imagine this potential if I was in a network. I use calibre exclusively for maintaining my library—no outside fiddling, I promise. (When I send a file to kindle app steps are: open calibre, select book that has mobi format, open "Send to Kindle", drag calibre book entry to "send to kindle", it auto detects mobi format/lets me adjust title-author, then it uploads to kindle cloud as 'document', from that point on i'm reading/notating the kindle cloud file not my personal copy)
I am working off of a single iMac running OS 10.11.2.
I appreciate the tips if I were to choose to tempt fate and try to connect a device to calibre or sync it in some way.
However, as I have not been syncing and an error occurred, can anyone advise? Is there perhaps a diagnostic to run to check if anything is attempting to sync?
Again, the only thing I had given permission in the past was dropbox and I have since moved the library out of dropbox's reach. Many, many calibre versions previous I attempted to use Marvin and Calibre, but I was never able to make it work appropriately without causing shutdowns, so I uninstalled it.
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Originally Posted by theducks
I will echo: Didn't happen on its own. 
Calibre does not tolerate OS level messing below the skirts with filenames or folders.  (that includes direct Adding via the OS) Only Calibre should be used to add/remove/rename books
Calibre was not designed for Multi-access (2+ simultaneous computers)
Active Sync can fight changes. Always pause before running Calibre and allow it to complete before connecting to another/same Calibre again (your connection may be lots slower than your local drive. Many changes can take TIME to sync)
 disable the active A/V scan of the Calibre Library folder (those books were checked when you downloaded them, anyway). That can slow file updates. |