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sparker · 10-28-2019, 09:25 PM

I have a headless Mac Mini that runs my house, and a MacBook Pro I carry with me. I have a lot of space on the Mac Mini so I'd like to move my library there for primary storage, and occasionally use Calibre from there. I'd also like to open Calibre using the shared filesystem from the mini (that will mount to /Volumes/<myid>/Documents/CalibreLibrary on my Macbook).

As long as I'm sure that I never run Calibre in both places at the same time, will this be OK? If Calibre libraries treat all paths as relative to the library path, I think this will work fine. If it actually stores absolute paths, then it wont.

Thanks!

Steve

10-28-2019, 09:25 PM	#1
sparker Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: iPad	Two computers with Calibre, one library filesystem I have a headless Mac Mini that runs my house, and a MacBook Pro I carry with me. I have a lot of space on the Mac Mini so I'd like to move my library there for primary storage, and occasionally use Calibre from there. I'd also like to open Calibre using the shared filesystem from the mini (that will mount to /Volumes/<myid>/Documents/CalibreLibrary on my Macbook). As long as I'm sure that I never run Calibre in both places at the same time, will this be OK? If Calibre libraries treat all paths as relative to the library path, I think this will work fine. If it actually stores absolute paths, then it wont. Thanks! Steve