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Originally Posted by pinky62
I don’t understand why do I need another software to sync doesn’t Dropbox sync files automatically??
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Originally Posted by theducks
Active (while Calibre is running) sync is deadly to Library integrity.
You might read the whole FAQ section (it is not huge) and glean some of the issues.
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pinky62 - here's the long form of my rationale.
I don't like the idea of having to stop a program (Dropbox) before I run another program (calibre), and when I close a program (calibre) having to restart another program (Dropbox).
Yes I know I could do it within a command script, but then I have to maintain and manage that script as I would any other program. I start calibre from many places:
taskbar,
'desktop' shortcut,
command line,
file explorer open with,
file explorer send to,
from xplorer˛,
from Evernote.
from OneNote
It would necessitate sprinkling symlinks to the command script in multiple locations (assuming they would work everywhere), which is more stuff to maintain and manage.
By using a separate tool to do the synchronised backups I don't have all that hassle. And I can use the same tool with the same settings to maintain an additional backup on a local USB disk. And if I wanted I could have others elsewhere, e.g. Amazon Cloud etc. Dropbox and most similar services are narcissistic - they only know about themselves
And some of the folder/file sync tools, such as GoodSynch, offer sensible alternatives for dealing with hard and symbolic links. I'm not sure that Dropbox, OneDrive etc offer that.
And I don't want different backup solutions for different types of data. A shelf of books == a pile of photo albums == a heap of videos == a stack of music == a jumble of invoices etc.
BR