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Originally Posted by CapitalGGeek
I thought I would kill two birds with one stone - backup my data, and have portable on a thumb drive for my wife & daughter to use.
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As well as killing two birds, you probably shoot yourself in the foot.
Whenever your wife or daughter made changes on the thumb drive you would want to synch it back to your desktop - wouldn't you. And that would overwrite any changes you'd made on the desktop instance of the library whilst your wife and daughter were changing the thumb drive instance.
Or only make changes on the thumb drive - i.e. only the person who has it can do any updating. Bit like only having one car key, only the person who has the key can drive the car.
If you want share a common library between yourself, wife, and daughter you ought to consider using the
calibre content server. I'm not sure where multi-user metadata update is at with calibre-server. It's either in the pipeline or might already be available.
BR