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victor50 · 01-29-2021, 10:45 AM

Because of the DRM problem I decided to downgrade my Calibre to 4.x and to install a 5.x version on my PC on another location, using the same bookstore location on my NAS. The two locations are connected by VPN and the same networkdrive is available on both locations. Still when installing the 5.x version didn't "see" the books installed. I could add books that are not seen on the other location. Now, the DRM issue seems to be resolved, so I installed the newest 5.10 (64) on both locations. Still no joy. I could add the two new books by draging the epubs to the masterlist, but that was it. The metadata is set to the bookstore on the NAS. There is only one metadata.db.
Now on the original location there also is a books.db that is actually loaded. On both locations there is a setting "database_path": "C:\\Users\\name/library1.db".
However on the new location there is no books.db! I copied the books.db to the new location, but it doesn't load. I would like to have this books.db in the library so the same database can be used by both installations.

Then on the new location there is an option Books > Export/Import calibre data.
There is no such option on the old location.

I think I will switch to a browserversion on the new location, when the serverside is stable. Still this is all very odd.

01-29-2021, 10:45 AM	#1
victor50 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: PC W10pro, Android Moto 5S	Two installations using the same bookstore Because of the DRM problem I decided to downgrade my Calibre to 4.x and to install a 5.x version on my PC on another location, using the same bookstore location on my NAS. The two locations are connected by VPN and the same networkdrive is available on both locations. Still when installing the 5.x version didn't "see" the books installed. I could add books that are not seen on the other location. Now, the DRM issue seems to be resolved, so I installed the newest 5.10 (64) on both locations. Still no joy. I could add the two new books by draging the epubs to the masterlist, but that was it. The metadata is set to the bookstore on the NAS. There is only one metadata.db. Now on the original location there also is a books.db that is actually loaded. On both locations there is a setting "database_path": "C:\\Users\\name/library1.db". However on the new location there is no books.db! I copied the books.db to the new location, but it doesn't load. I would like to have this books.db in the library so the same database can be used by both installations. Then on the new location there is an option Books > Export/Import calibre data. There is no such option on the old location. I think I will switch to a browserversion on the new location, when the serverside is stable. Still this is all very odd.