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Originally Posted by nikev
Thanks for the tip.
That Calibre FAQ says further down that file syncing mechanisms like Dropbox or rsync are okay! Personally, I have been using Dropbox for at least two years without event. Otherwise it is a nuisance to get books from one machine to another.
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I'm assuming that you are referring to the paragraph I'm quoting below? One co-worker does this using some batch file magic. Stop the file sync, start calibre, exit calibre, restart file sync. And yes, it works for a while until the ooopss moment. You forget and run calibre directly while file syncing is still happening, you update calibre and it auto-runs, whatever else Murphy comes up with. That's why so many posts about issues in the calibre forum read: I've been using Whoever's cloud storage for my calibre library for years and now I have corruption issues. How do I fix these?
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If you must share the actual library, use a file syncing tool like DropBox or rsync instead of a networked drive. If you are using a file-syncing tool it is essential that you make sure that both calibre and the file syncing tool do not try to access the calibre library at the same time. In other words, do not run the file syncing tool and calibre at the same time."