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paai · 10-24-2018, 02:16 PM

I have some calibre databases with the same name, but in different directory trees (actually they are the backups, but I cannot unmount the backup volume). Let us call them database A, B and C.

Now calibre shows database A from the 'live' directory, database B from the backup directory and, get this, shows two databases C, one live and one of the backup. I only found this after temporarily renaming the backup databases to A_1, B_1 and C_1 and it makes me very nervous, because changes I made to the live database may in fact be made to the backup, and got overwritten by the next backup.

If I can tell calibre that it should only find databases in the live directory, my problem would be solved, but how do I do that?

Thank you

Paai

10-24-2018, 02:16 PM	#1
paai Member Posts: 12 Karma: 22 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: kobo Aura	Databases with the same names I have some calibre databases with the same name, but in different directory trees (actually they are the backups, but I cannot unmount the backup volume). Let us call them database A, B and C. Now calibre shows database A from the 'live' directory, database B from the backup directory and, get this, shows two databases C, one live and one of the backup. I only found this after temporarily renaming the backup databases to A_1, B_1 and C_1 and it makes me very nervous, because changes I made to the live database may in fact be made to the backup, and got overwritten by the next backup. If I can tell calibre that it should only find databases in the live directory, my problem would be solved, but how do I do that? Thank you Paai