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Old 12-18-2020, 06:53 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Which makes me wonder: What would happen if you put a copy of Calibre Portable and a library on a virtual hard drive and then put the VHD itself onto the cloud storage?

Since the cloud is only handling the container file, while Windows itself handles the files inside....it should work to prevent most of the issues that come up with Calibre in the cloud. If I'm right, it would even be a potential solution for Google Drive eating the ID numbers.
You do realize that any slight change to the database, let alone adding or removing books, and the whole VHD file will have to be synced all over again. This can be unpractical IMO.
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