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iBookMan · 12-31-2019, 09:37 AM

I just got many new books for the holidays and was surprised to see 1.8 gb of calibre cache being synchronized with all of my machines because I run calibre as a portable app in m/s OneDrive (but keep the library in a non-synching portion of my disk). That's a big problem on machines with only small SSD drives.

So, I tried the CALIBRE_CACHE_DIRECTORY fix [thanks for the tip] and it works great for use of the ebook viewer directly by double-clicking on the book to trigger the viewer, but if I double click on the book file type in calibre main window itself, the cache goes into the calibre settings directory. the CALIBRE_CACHE_DIRECTORY is ignored there.

Any suggestions? I like to have calibre available on all machines in case a conversion is needed so would really like to keep it in OneDrive.

Thanks!

12-31-2019, 09:37 AM	#10
iBookMan Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: kindle	I just got many new books for the holidays and was surprised to see 1.8 gb of calibre cache being synchronized with all of my machines because I run calibre as a portable app in m/s OneDrive (but keep the library in a non-synching portion of my disk). That's a big problem on machines with only small SSD drives. So, I tried the CALIBRE_CACHE_DIRECTORY fix [thanks for the tip] and it works great for use of the ebook viewer directly by double-clicking on the book to trigger the viewer, but if I double click on the book file type in calibre main window itself, the cache goes into the calibre settings directory. the CALIBRE_CACHE_DIRECTORY is ignored there. Any suggestions? I like to have calibre available on all machines in case a conversion is needed so would really like to keep it in OneDrive. Thanks!