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Originally Posted by Shades67
Thank you again Dennis. Saving your information here to use as I have time. I agree the quantity in a persons library would have a lot to do with number of tags needed.
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You're quite welcome.
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Great information on saving to thumb drive and External drive and the sync link. I will put this to good use for sure. Would be a shame to go through all of this work on Calibre then lose it to an electronics failure. Curious if also all the books transfer with this saving? I suppose it would save all of them??
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Yes, they will.
Your Calibre library is a directory on your hard drive, with sub-directories below it. Calibre creates directories as needed as you add books to the library. They get stored in directories that are the names of the authors, in Last Name, First Name format. More books by an existing author get stored in that author's directory.
Here, the master is in D:\Calibre Library and below. Books I download get downloaded to d:\eBooks\Add to Calibre, and Calibre adds them from that specified location. It makes a copy of the downloaded book in the library it maintains, so after they've been added to Calibre, I delete them from the download directory.
Free File Sync mirrors
directories between drives. Point it at a source directory and a destination directory, and anything in the source directory that
isn't in the destination directory gets transferred. That happens for new files that don't exist, and existing files that have newer versions in the source directory.
This happens outside of Calibre, and simply copies
files. FFS doesn't care what's in the file - only whether it exists in the current form in the directories you are synchronizing. (If you
remove books from your master Calibre library, FFS will remove them from the thumb drive too, since the goal is the
same contents in both locations.)
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Dennis