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Old 02-20-2022, 11:09 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post

The recommendation is "don't" because it is known to fail and fail catastrophically. And it has probably gotten "overly restrictive" because there have been far to many posts which begin with "I have had my library on <non-local storage> and it has been working for years, but, I have just lost my library".
Actually I used to run two copies of Calibre on different machines. And, of course, the database would become corrupt particularly if I added or removed files from the secondary computer.

One of the great virtues of Calibre however, is that it can reconstruct its database from the folders and files themselves. When I corrupted the database, the "Restore Database" command always worked fine, though it takes a while.
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