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Originally Posted by johnelle

The Portable suggest sorta kinda works but if you have DATABASE_OVERRIDE set it is a bit of a mess because the portable version is locked to the database and in my case it creates entries with blank metadata in the shared DB. You have to load in 4. Delete all the bogus entries just created in 5. Reload in 5 from the portable library. As this goes on the portable directory is going to get longer making it a pain to reload each time. Yes I could do/undo the environmental but its a real pain in the ass to get working again so I basically have to choose between two evils.

Try this:

• Create a vanilla install of 4.23 Portable with the current deDRM plugin
• Drop a symlink to your 'regular' library into the 4.23 Calibre Portable folder
• Add new books to the 4.23 'default' library and let deDRM do its magic.
• Do a copy with delete from the 'default' library to your 'regular' library.
• Close 4.23 Portable and start the calibre 5.X variant you use - i.e 32bit, 64bit, or portable.

BR