[starrigger]

I've been trying to figure out the best way to sync books across Calibre libraries on multiple computers, and every way I try to do it seems to have a gotcha. I must be missing something.

Never mind a full sync for now. Say I've got a few books on my desktop PC that I want to get into my laptop's Calibre library. I can't just drag and drop the Calibre library folders, right? Because that'll mess up the database--or at least not update the laptop's db?

So if I drag and drop the original files into the laptop's Calibre library, I get the books, but lose any fixing I've done to the metadata--tags, etc. I thought I could "Save" the books in the desktop Calibre to update the metadata in the files, then drop those saved files into the laptop's library. But that didn't work, either. The metadata still comes through messed up.

What am I missing? Seems like this should be easy.