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Old 12-08-2023, 03:14 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Puni View Post
Yeah, I'm aware it wasn't designed for it, but the synchronization use case happens when using a large variety of common tools (Google Drive, OneDrive, Resilio Sync, Offline folders, etc.) so I'm curious what others have tried. One option is to just let replication happen and not run Calibre from more than one device, but I haven't found any really great windows clients that work better than Calibre (which doesn't have a read only mode). I'm considering just making the calibre libraries read only on the filesystem but looking for cleaner solutions.
Personally I have used Dropbox (I still use it for backup, but not for library syncing any longer), and no matter how careful I was, I still got conflicted database and book folders. I had to run the library check every time I synced across more than one device. So I don't recommend doing it.

Years ago I tried OneDrive, which ended in OneDrive starting to randomly delete my files. And Google Drive is not compatible with the calibre library structure at all (as in, it'll mess the library up pretty quickly).
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