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Old 04-16-2018, 10:07 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Kythe42 View Post
[. . .] I open the file directly rather than opening the program and then choosing the file. [. . .]
Same here, programs I need to open directly and frequently are pinned to the taskbar (e.g. file manager, browsers, mail client, calculator, note takers), those I use occasionally are pinned to the start menu (e.g. reminders, registry editor, torrent client etc). I have 'gadgets' (dictionary, download manager, clipboard manager etc) in the tray, and some program shortcuts, such calibre.exe, in my Send To folder, but no program shortcuts on my desktop.

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Edit: It seems another justification for separate copies of Calibre Portable is that there are certain settings that I might want to be different for different libraries, but changing the setting on one library affects all of them.
At one stage I ran separate portables for different libraries for that very reason. I wanted adds to my books library to get metadata from the book file, and adds to the other libraries to get metadata from the file name, I also wanted different settings relating to Author names.

However, I switched back to one calibre install because I found the effort to maintain all the other settings consistently across multiple portables a hassle. I adjust settings as needed and correct my mistakes when I forget to do so. I also didn't like the fact that I had to update each install of Portable whenever I wanted to upgrade to a new version.

More recently the Job Spy plugin has added tools to allow tweaking of some 'global' settings on a per-library basis.

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