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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
For what it's worth, my Calibre library has been on Dropbox for years. However, I don't have Dropbox set to automatically launch when I login to the computer. If I have it running, I turn it off before opening Calibre.
If you are careful, it works, but you have to be aware and careful.
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My personal take is that Murphy was an optimist. Yes, you can make it work if you are careful. Unfortunately, all of us being human, sooner or later, calibre will be launched while cloud syncing is active.
The horrible example for me was one acquaintance of mine who used a batch file that stopped cloud sync prior to launching calibre and then restarted it on exit. This worked for him for a couple of years until the day he (1) downloaded an calibre update, (2) installed it while calibre wasn't running and (3) did not remove the check to keep calibre from launching after the install. He ended up re-importing his library from backup when calibre informed him that he had <100 books in his library.