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Originally Posted by mtjj
In the end it seemed the simplest way (for me) was to use the automatic adding. I edit the book on my laptop to get all the metadata correct and push it out to a directory on a network share. Calibre running (GUI, minimized) on the server picks it up and files it correctly into the library.
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I may have spoken too soon, as I've noticed something odd with this. I think I've got a workaround but I mention it here in case someone else reads this and tries to use my method.
It seems that calibre's behaviour on "save to disk" is to make an identical copy of the file,
then update it with metadata? What is happened is that some files were saved from the laptop but appearing on the server with incorrect tags (not cleaned). I tried it again paying attention and noticed errors on save: " IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ". But the file was appearing successfully in the calibre library on the server.
What I think is happening is that calibre-on-the-laptop is saving the file, then calibre-on-the-server is grabbing it from the directory before calibre-on-the-laptop has a chance to update the metadata. I might be wrong but I can't see another explanation for what is happening?
Now for epub I think I can get around this by polishing the book first, but this doesn't work for PDFs. Instead I need to save those to a different directory on the laptop, then once saved move them to my shared directory.....