[dba901fb0]

Greetings all,

I'm hopping that this is an appropriate forum for this inquiry, if not, please guide me to an appropriate forum, in the case this board is not the appropriate place for this inquiry, please direct me to a more appropriate place.

I'm running Linux Mint 21.1, calibre being one of the e-book readers available via the Software Manager.

The difficulty for me is in the window titled "Choose your calibre Library" (location). When calibre is installed via the Software Manager it sets up a folder /home/ <Machine name> / calibre Library.

Please note; I'm not qualified nor willing to go into attempting to explain Linux structure or syntax, suffice it that "/home/ <Machine name> / calibre Library" is a path to the folder "calibre Library" this folder holds a file named metadata.db which, as most of you will know is a SQLite3 database.

Now, it's entirely possible I just don't understand what is supposed to happen next, none the less, the window called; "Choose your calibre Library" opens after clicking on an icon labeled; "calibre Library"

This window shows the current location of the folder; "calibre Library". If you try to add that address the window gives the error message;
calibre, version 5.37.0
ERROR: Same as current: The location /home/ <Machine name> /Calibre Library contains the current calibre library

If i create a new folder: "/calibre Library2" I get the following error message:
calibre, version 5.37.0
ERROR: Bad location: /home/ <Machine name> /calibre Library2 is not an existing folder.

For what it's worth; I created just such a folder prior to attempting to move through this processes.

So any ideas you would be willing to share?

Thank you for your time in reading this rather obscure screed.
Thank you if you can provide an answer and/or direct me to other sites where this question might find a better answer. (FWIW, I think I'll ask this same question over at the Linux Mint forums.

Thank you and respectfully yours dba901fb0