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Originally Posted by theducks
Each Library is a self contained set of files and folders. the files BetterRed controls the interface (what you see). These are a lock stepped SET, which is why you do not change things OUTSIDE of the Calibre GUI or CLI.
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Yeah, I didn't realize any of this until starting to consolidate my collection today!
But surely there's a way to slap Calibre on the head and say, "there boy there, fetch! Sic! Kill!"
I mean, how can I make Calibre know that these are eBooks already arranged in nice Calibre author-name folders??
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Originally Posted by theducks
If something keeps disappearing, you had a storage / AV issue.
You mentioned a 1T flash. There are a lot of fakes (reports way larger than the chip stores). I suspect you metadata.db's are getting stomped upon  |
Well, the counterfeit stuff is supposed to fail basically right away -- and I didn't get the card off Amazon but from B&H which isn't a total Wild West kind of place. But I was just referring to Flash technology's inherent limitations; I got a SanDisk 1TB microSD for $250 instead of something like a $400 top-of-the-line Samsung one.
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Originally Posted by theducks
Also Flash can fail with no notice. Usually HD's start making small errors that should be taken as a warning :"clone me now"  |
Yup! That's why I thought it's about time all my eBooks from various different installations of Calibre across different computers should be consolidated now -- on my microSD as well as a compact portable HDD!