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Originally Posted by DNSB
A bit oddly, I was under the impression that One Drive synced files in real time. To quote from Microsoft's documentation:
In my admittedly limited testing, with a small calibre library synced to One Drive, changes I made were synced in real time. Not using only the local file only until I finished but syncing in real <expletive deleted> time. I could click on the One Drive icon and pause syncing while I had calibre open or I could the calibre library to a directory that was not being synced and then copy it back afterwards. I played with batch files to do both of those but then went back to the safety of local use only with a backup to multiple locations when calibre was not running. If you want to take a look at the network activity, WireShark comes in handy.
BTW, if you don't mind my asking, what is your IT background?
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I started off coding assembler in octal using punched cards - since you ask!
After that I was IT director, then a contractor and Microsoft MVP with C++ and Java. And now DB management on SQL Server / Azure. I don't know if that's too much information...
Anyway, just for the future, the internet interface to OneDrive has (a) a waste basket of deleted files, going back 30 days on the basic plan I think, and (b) a version history for each file. So you can go back to yesterday's, or last week's, db file if you have a problem. So these problems people had that you were talking about, should always be recoverable really.
Note I wasn't suggesting in any way not to have backups - I have an offsite hard disk backup of all my calibre libraries, which I make every month or so, though as I say I never needed to use it.
PS And I know about Wireshark, of course. But it's much easier to see what OneDrive is doing by logging into its web interface and watching the files version themselves