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Originally Posted by wgib
I suspect that by "not network safe", this means that Calibre will not recognise if the database located on a network drive has become unavailable (network is down or server rebooted etc.). It is best to keep the contents of Calibre and the database on the same locally attached drive. This could be an internal hard drive or an external USB drive, for example. Keeping files on remote servers is problematic with Calibre.
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I think that it is worse than that. Network drives often do not support the database locking semantics that Calibre assumes, which can lead to database corruption. This is particularly the case if two Calibre installations might try and access the same database as Calibre is not multi-user safe either since it caches a lot of database information in RAM for performance reasons.