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Old 04-08-2018, 09:45 PM   #1
Dan__
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Refreshing the calibre catalog when new books appear in the library folder

Hi,

I've installed calibre and calibre-web on debian. I normally add books using calibre on one of my Macs or PCs. The Calibre Library is in Dropbox, so when I add a book it is synced to the debian machine. But, the new book doesn't get added to the catalog unless I open calibre on the linux machine.

Calibre-web doesn't require that calibre-server be running and, in any case I'm never sure when calibre-server decides to refresh the catalog.

It would be very useful if the calibredb command had a refresh option to update the catalog from the library. Then I could cron that and have it run every hour or so.

I hope you agree that this would be useful.

Thank you,
Dan Essin
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