Thread: corrupt metadata.db and redoing library
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Old 12-30-2009, 11:27 AM   #5
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The downside would be a slowdown. The OPF file would have to be regenerated for each metadata change and because access to the database is multithreaded the file would have to locked and unlocked to prevent corruption.
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