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stumped · 03-14-2020, 02:46 AM

agree
cop[y the library, one time, from NAS to a local drive on her PC, and set up her calibre to use that.
you can then sync the libraries over LAN when all devices are on.
treat yours as the master - yours because that is where you do the new book adds.
set up a free utility like freefilesync to do a one way mirror to her laptop. Once configured and run once to create the relevant records it will only take a few seconds to update small changes to your master library. Run as needed
i suggest you run the sync from her laptop, and grant "everyone" read access to your library folder in windows, as a shared windows folder. it will not need write access to that master copy because its doing a one way mirror, and not having that access is another safety feature. EdIt i see the library is actually on a NAS, not local to your PC, dunno if that changes any mechanism for sharing- probably not, if the NAS is a mapped network drive. but with this setup you could arguably dispense with the NAS, and keep the 2 libraries on teh 2 laptops

03-14-2020, 02:46 AM	#4
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	agree cop[y the library, one time, from NAS to a local drive on her PC, and set up her calibre to use that. you can then sync the libraries over LAN when all devices are on. treat yours as the master - yours because that is where you do the new book adds. set up a free utility like freefilesync to do a one way mirror to her laptop. Once configured and run once to create the relevant records it will only take a few seconds to update small changes to your master library. Run as needed i suggest you run the sync from her laptop, and grant "everyone" read access to your library folder in windows, as a shared windows folder. it will not need write access to that master copy because its doing a one way mirror, and not having that access is another safety feature. EdIt i see the library is actually on a NAS, not local to your PC, dunno if that changes any mechanism for sharing- probably not, if the NAS is a mapped network drive. but with this setup you could arguably dispense with the NAS, and keep the 2 libraries on teh 2 laptops Last edited by stumped; 03-14-2020 at 02:49 AM.