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Old 01-10-2026, 05:01 AM   #1
ufasoli
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Location: Thonon-les-Bains, France
Device: Kobo Libra Colour
Location of new books

Hi,
Sorry if this specific question has been asked before but I cannot find the use case.

I have my ebook files in a NAS server:
Code:
/nas/data/ebooks
and I have configured my calibre instance to point to the library
Code:
metadata.db
in my local computer (~/Library/Preferences/calibre/macos-env.txt):

Code:
CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH=/Calibre/metadata.db
This works pretty well as the database library is in the local disk whereas the ebooks are in the NAS server.

However when I add a new book I would expect Calibre to copy the file to the NAS server (/nas/data/ebooks) with Calibre's own file structure and update the metadata.db locally but instead of that the book is copied locally to where the metadata.db is present, is this the expected behavior or am I doing something wrong?.

PS: I'm using latest version of Calibre
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