[chaley]

Originally Posted by Psmith0182

ok this is weird....I found the file in my barnes and nobles bestsellers folder, and now it is connected, but it only recognizes the kindle books I have, but not the actual ebooks I put in dropbox. what should I do?

Originally Posted by Psmith0182

ok it appears that because that file was in the barnes and nobles folder, it is only showing the b&n books and nothing else. should I put that file in the main dropbox folder so it recognizes everything, or would that mess something up?

Originally Posted by Psmith0182

hmmm tried and it didn't work

I am confused. I can't follow what you are doing.

First: don't copy books around between folders on Dropbox unless you know what you are doing. If one of those folders is a calibre library then copying into that folder can mess up your library.

Second: lets start from the beginning. CC wants a full calibre library, not a collection of books. A "full calibre library" is a library that the calibre program can open on whatever computer you use to run calibre. Apparently you have a calibre library in your barnes & noble folder. How it got there and what it contains I cannot say.

Follow these steps to get the calibre library you want into Dropbox.

1. On the machine running calibre, open the calibre library you want in Dropbox.
2. In calibre, click on the library icon on the tool bar.
3. Click on Switch/create library. You should see something like the following screen capture. Make a note of the path to the library, found in the outlined section of that dialog.
   
4. Close calibre. Make sure it is really closed, with no icon left in the task bar or equivalent in your system.
5. Open a file explorer or whatever it is called on your system.
6. Navigate to the folder with the path you noted. You should see a lot of folders named after authors. You should also see a file named "metadata.db".
7. Go up one level in the path. You should see the folder containing your library. In my screen capture it is the one double-boxed.
8. Copy that folder to somewhere in your Dropbox sync folder. Make a note of where you copied it.
9. Wait for Dropbox to sync completely. How you know it is finished depends on your operating system. Sometimes Dropbox shows icons on the file and folder names. Alternatively you can open the Dropbox app (on Windows from the system tray) and check the sync status as shown in the following image.
   
10. Once Dropbox has synced, check the folder in Dropbox itself. Open Dropbox in your web browser and navigate to the library folder you created. You should see the same author folders and the same metadata.db file.
11. Using CC, connect to Dropbox and navigate to the folder containing the library folder. You should see the library folder with a green check next to it. Tap that folder to select that library.

The above steps are not the only way to copy a calibre library. One way: you can also do it from inside calibre using its Copy to library function. If you would rather use that but don't know how, ask in the calibre forum. Another way: use a file sync program to copy the library. Something like xcopy on windows. Ask on the calibre forum if you want to use this method.