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Originally Posted by Psmith0182
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I for one do not doubt that you have purchased Calibre Companion
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Originally Posted by Psmith0182
perhaps in attempting to get CC to recognize my actual library, as I had previously suggested the possibility of, I placed a metadata file in the wrong place....cuz the way that it had automatically set up when installing calibre to my laptop, the metadata file was in the barnes and nobles folder rather than in the books folder, and then I spotted it in the stephen king one...but nowhere else in dropbox. I tried to fix that by moving the metadata file to the books folder, and cc finally acknowledged the presence of the other folders/files.
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And here, I think, is the root of the problem.
The calibre library folder in dropbox must be an *exact copy* of a calibre library on your pc (machine running calibre). It must not contain any other files or folders.
CC uses the existence of "metadata.db" to decide that a folder is a copy of a calibre library. If you copy a metadata.db file to some folder then CC will be very confused. The same thing is true of calibre. If calibre finds a metadata.db file then it thinks it has a library. Nothing good will happen if the metadata.db "fell out of the sky" into that folder.
To start again: if you want to use CC's cloud connection with Dropbox then you must put a complete copy of a calibre library into Dropbox. It must be its own folder. No other files or folders are to be added to it. No folders are to be deleted from it.