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Originally Posted by sheepdog
It seems to me that it should be safe to use Dropbox, if you stick to the following regimen faithfully. - do not use Dropbox for anything other than the Calibre library,
- turn off (or pause) automatic syncing of Dropbox on all computers,
- before opening Calibre turn on Dropbox syncing only on the computer using Calibre and turn off Dropbox syncing before opening Calibre, This will sync down any changes made on another device.
- do not open Calibre on multiple computers simultaneously, so only open Calibre while using it and close it (thereby syncing to the database) when finished,
- when Calibre is closed, turn on Dropbox syncing and turn it off again when complete. This will prepare the updates to all other devices.
Obviously, this will only work if only one person is ever using the Calibre library and it is a little tedious, but could probably be easily scripted. |
- NO! You should never use the Dropbox sync software on your libraries. Use FreeFileSync to copy your libraries to the Dropbox directory and then let the sync software do it's thing. That way if something becomes corrupted, you won't lose your existing library.
- Do not ever let the sync software touch your active libraries.
- See #2.
- If your Dropbox backed up library does become corrupted, you'll be syncing the corruption back to your active library.
- See #2
You do not want to use the library from Dropbox unless you actually need to and only after you've verified that it's not corrupted or you've fixed it if it is corrupted. It's not a question of if your libraries will be corrupted, but of when.