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Old 09-16-2022, 08:50 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Yep to the symbolic link.

I wanted to play with both calibre 5 AND 6. So I left my existing non portable calibre 5 install in place, installed calibre 6 portable. Created a symbolic link in the portable install to my existing calibre 5 library, copied the preferences from 5 to portable and tada.

I can run 5 as is, and 6 portable. The only difference is the configuration directory.
You can symlink your "normal" config and rename it, viz:

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Symlink names don't have to be the same as the target name.

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