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Originally Posted by CapitalGGeek
Thanks.
I'm not really interested in getting metadata changes from the thumb-drive to the desktop. The desktop should be authoritative.
If I understand @ilovejedd & @BetterRed correctly, then syncing the files in the 'Calibre Library' folder in portable should be sufficient. Does portable scrape the directory structure for new additions at every startup? How would it know that there are new books there?
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Will wife or daughter add books to the thumb drive? If so, file synching will create mismatches between database and library folders.
One of the major reasons the calibre-server feature exists is to give multiple users access to a common library - which is one of the things you want.
However, if you are disinclined to use calibre-server and you want your wife and daughter to have
read-only access to a common library you could make use of the
CalibreSpy plugin - it can be run from a batch file.
You could even maintain two copies of Calibre Portable, one for the wife and one for your daughter.
Curious: how big is your library, in terms of books and disk space.
BR