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Originally Posted by Cris B
Searches have revealed a bunch of threads
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They're all pretty old and it looks to me like the advice might be out of date.
... I've created several dummy files in my GDrive, with parentheses in the main part of the filename, in the extension, with and without containing spaces etc. So far they've survived syncs and file edits intact.
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The next step is start using Google Drive with a small testing Calibre database. Start using it, get creative.
Create database entries with weird author names and titles, edit a book, add books to the database, add books to existing records, delete books from different computer, make a manual change in a filesystem to see how gracefully system recovers, import empty file as a cover, import very large file as a cover, start importing large epub and yank ethernet cable, import damaged epub file and ask Calibre fetch metadata from it, drag and drop 1000 ebook files to the Calibre and if it survives drop the connection to the net during the process, do large metadata edit, export database, import database, try recovering from backup ...
Steps after that would be
- create backup of your main Calibre database
- make sure the backup is readable and usable
- create *another* backup in another location
- start testing your main Calibre database on Google Drive thoroughly
- the last step would be reporting any problems and/or success, so that those stale threads are more recent.
Yes, some of us need to try things that were reported in the past as "not working". Sometimes we might shoot ourselves into a foot (hopefully with a backup foot available for use immediately), sometimes we make progress happen ;-)