MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Can Calibre Index books stored locally and remotely?

leecreighton · 11-26-2018, 02:26 AM

Although it may not seem like it, my Mac thinks that Dropbox and pCloud are local. I don't use the apps that, say, Dropbox furnishes, precisely because it requires local copies of everything. Why would I buy 1 TB (which is the lowest-tier paid plan) of space if everything I put there has to also be on my machine?

Instead, I use something called CloudMounter, which mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, pCloud, Box drive, or any remote drive while making the Mac think it's just any-old network drive. No copies needed. Dropbox and the others therefore function as extra, non-redundant storage. So I wonder if calibre would be able to work with that.

I had no idea Calibre had a server version, but that sounds exactly like the complication I was trying to avoid. I'll look, but what I'm hearing is that I can run the server on my local machine, and it will index files on multiple drives. I then...wait...do I then run Calibre as well, to access the server that's on the same machine?

11-26-2018, 02:26 AM	#4
leecreighton Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2018 Device: iPad	Although it may not seem like it, my Mac thinks that Dropbox and pCloud are local. I don't use the apps that, say, Dropbox furnishes, precisely because it requires local copies of everything. Why would I buy 1 TB (which is the lowest-tier paid plan) of space if everything I put there has to also be on my machine? Instead, I use something called CloudMounter, which mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, pCloud, Box drive, or any remote drive while making the Mac think it's just any-old network drive. No copies needed. Dropbox and the others therefore function as extra, non-redundant storage. So I wonder if calibre would be able to work with that. I had no idea Calibre had a server version, but that sounds exactly like the complication I was trying to avoid. I'll look, but what I'm hearing is that I can run the server on my local machine, and it will index files on multiple drives. I then...wait...do I then run Calibre as well, to access the server that's on the same machine?