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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's not exactly right. You CAN use your Calibre library with Dropbox, if you know what you're doing and are aware of the risks. But yes, definitely not recommended if you're in the habit of letting your Dropbox run and sync automatically in the background. I've never had that habit, because I started to use Dropbox specifically for accessing my library on several devices and was aware of the dangers involved.
Best forget Google Drive and OneDrive, those do mess up your library, no matter how careful you are.
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Thing is, if something happens to your library on Dropbox and it syncs the changes back, your library can be damaged. if you really want to use Dropbox, the solution is to do a one-way sync to the local Dropbox directory and then let the sync happen from there. That way, the Dropbox software will NEVER touch the working library. On Windows, I highly recommend FreeFileSync to do the local syncing.