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Originally Posted by BetterRed
What does this 'convert' mean?
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FTR - I also use Goodsynch.
What does that last sentence mean - slow at what? Scrolling the list of books, viewing a book, updating metadata?
Do you have another drive to which you can copy the Large Library?
If you copy the Large Library\metadata.db file to an empty folder on your system drive you could have calibre access that folder as a library - that might give you a clue as whether the problem is database or device related.
Oh, and how is the USB drive formatted?
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The external drive is a Samsung 4TB drive formatted to NTFS. The library in question is 674GB. I only have 432GB available on my secondary 1TB internal drive.
The USB Drive is set for "Quick Removal" which disables write caching on the disk.
It is slow in scrolling and opening the Metadata and especially slow at saving the metadata.
I do have an alternate USB drive. I normally backup to a secondary USB drive every two months. Back up to my QNAP NAS occurs every time I add new books or update a book's metadata. Once per week I back up to a Synology NAS. I have OCD on losing data!
All backups are done using Goodsynch.
Tonight I will first change the USB cable and if that makes no difference I will try the Secondary USB back up. I will also carry out tests on the USB port. I will then try a different USB port.
The secondary backup was last carried out two months ago which is well before I encountered performance issues. If there is a change in performance it would then point to a failing USB drive.