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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You could use a symlink in that case, though how well it works on windows i have no idea.
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Symlinks are fine on the Windows/NTFS platform, I've used them since NT4 was in beta in 1995.
I have a couple of chunky libraries on a sluggish external HDD with metadata.db symlinks that reference <chunky-library-name>/metadata.db files on an SSD. Doesn't make much difference in performance**, but it seemed a good idea at the time - which was almost a decade ago. I would be surprised if the same couldn't be done for the full-text-search.db file - I'll give it a try.
Before I discovered calibre I built a very primitive home-grown equivalent that used symlinks by the truckload - it worked fine, but it was very intolerant of user errors
Many people confuse NTFS Symlinks with Windows shortcuts (.lnk files), but they're different beasts entirely.
BR
** because the db is memory resident when calibre is running.