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Good points. Thanks.
Since I really only care about this for making remote copies (backups), I could configure the rsync to just not copy zip files. But that would copy Calibres metadata.db file to the remote, and it would still think that the zip files were there, when they were not. I don't know how Calibre would react to this (if a copy were every started up on the remote data). I can't imagine Calibre would be terribly happy about some of it's previously known user library files just up and disappearing. But maybe it deals with that in a sane manner. In theory, couldn't you simply delete the metadata.db file and have Calibre recreate it, or some usable semblance of it, based on all the individual directory opf files? I don't know the exact procedure to do this, of if it's considered only an emergency move, not really for routine use. In the case where Calibre recreates it's metadata.db file, does ALL the original metadata get resurrected from the opf files? Or does some metadata not make it? If some things don't make it, does anybody know, specifically, what those "some things" are?
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