Thread: sudden and remarkable slowdown after user stopping backup of metadata
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Old 12-14-2017, 04:47 AM   #8
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That was a very useful hint, thanks. In fact I updated all the ebooks in less than an hour (in a local 3.0 USB HDD)! On the other hand, I noticed that many entries in the batch output have been labelled as unknown. Is that a normal thing?
No I've never seen that, but I have only used calibredb backup-metadata a few times over the past 5-6 years

If you could capture the actual text and post it here someone could probably work out what's going on.

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This suggestion has concepts completely new to me and I am not quite sure to have understood the details. I will study better the stuff in a future, anyway.
See Symbolic link - Wikipedia. You may read elsewhere that Symbolic Links are the equivalent of Windows shortcuts, that is false. The WikiP page explains the differences.

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