Thread: Old Calibre IDs stop me "Adding to Device"
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Old 05-19-2021, 09:31 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by frankst237 View Post
Hello,

I recently did 2 things - moved my Calbibre Library to OneDrive and then re-added a collection of books to the library and cleaned up several folders to make one (for the new OneDrive library location) to make my life easier - BIG MISTAKE.

See attachment for images but I have a single entry for a book in the Calibre Library but when I try to Send to Device, it tells me that there is no compatible data and concurrently it creates a new item (with a different ID number) in my OneDrive Calibre library with no content. This happens for many items but I am only sending one example.

I have COMPLETELY (as far as I know) removed Calibre and all associated files / folders from my computer (Windows 10 desktop) and reinstalled Calibre pointing the library at the OneDrive folder. Same result. From where is the empty folder 1170 appearing?????? (And is there any way of getting rid of it before my wife strangles me for messing up her birthday gift).

Can anyone help please? This is driving me crazy with none of my attempts to solve actually working. Please see the attachment.

Thank you, Frank
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...rked-drive-nas



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Do not put your calibre library on a networked drive.

A filesystem is a complex beast. Most network filesystems lack various filesystem features that calibre uses. Some don’t support file locking, some don’t support hardlinking, some are just flaky. Additionally, calibre is a single user application, if you accidentally run two copies of calibre on the same networked library, bad things will happen. Finally, different OSes impose different limitations on filesystems, so if you share your networked drive across OSes, once again, bad things will happen.
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