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Originally Posted by Blossom
The drive cannot be relocated due to Vista thinking it's part of the PC. I can't even eject it. If I do Vista will not boot.
My Calibre Library is 25GB my only thumb drive is 8GB. There's also syncing with Dropbox so it needs to stay on the desktop. I do two manual syncs one to Dropbox and one to another external drive.
If you don't think it will work. I'll just have to let it collect dust and sneak once or twice every few months. My options are limited unfortunately.
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Blossom - as I said in my original post - you
need to be aware of this ==> ...
Using calibre in a network environment is not supported. Yet many people (such as JSWolf) do it successfully, sometimes for years. But, there often comes a day when it stops working. Here is a recent example ==>>
Calibre database access issues. You'll find a quite a few similar threads where users report that calibre on a network suddenly stops working.
If you go ahead with using a shared drive just make sure you have a fallback strategy should it go belly up.
If your libraries were on a 64GB thumb, you could sync them from your laptop to a shared drive on the desktop, and from there to Dropbox. That should work fine and it would avoid the 'calibre on a network' issues.
BTW On April 11 2017 extended support for Windows Vista comes to an end. That means no more security updates.
BR