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Originally Posted by theducks
I've never heard of someone sharing an Auto Import folder.
Multiple users can use the Content Server. If the logged in user has the proper Content Server rights, they can add that way and make changes.
It is a Web Interface, not a folder share.
AFAIK The user does net even need an account on the host because of this.
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It's a different use case, single user many devices at different locations. I keep lots of docs in calibre and I don't want to manually pull every file since I last used a device. I keep a small local server at each location that replicates all my critical binaries. I was using sync on my laptops to keep my calibre folder replicated but if I simply have the server replicate and present it as a share, I can have the laptops auto-import from the share instead. No race condition, and fast. If I had to hit a remote calibre server via VPN over WAN, it would take a long time for some of the larger files with lots of technical drawings. That's why sync is important, keeping the documents and tools you need on hand rather than on-demand. Even though each location has pretty good bandwidth, the latency means it's very hard to take advantage of it.