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Originally Posted by Starson17
Do you have to take any precautions, like, not leaving both running during synchronization, or not editing from both machines at the same time to avoid data conflicts? I'm not familiar with dropbox (and it's too small for me), but I am synchronizing externally. I'm always a bit nervous about timing.
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There aren't too many precautions that you have to take. I have dropbox syncing 4 machines. Two at home and two at work. When Calibre (or any program) is open some files are locked by the program. The metadata.db file is one. During a break at work I was creating some custom recipes which are stored in that file.
I made the mistake of shutting down the computer, before shutting down Cailbre.
Usually I close any programs with locked files and give dropbox a chance to sync the files prior to shutting down the computer. What happened here was that I went home and discovered my recipes were not there. The 4 meg file didn't have a chance to sync from my work machine. Nothing was lost, it just wasn't where I wanted it.
I recreated the recipes and have been more careful since then. I have been using dropbox for 5 months now and that was the only time I had a hiccup.
I also run the portable apps from the dropbox. This way I have one Firefox browser I use on every machine. The bookmarks, history, extensions are always the same no matter which machine I open Firefox on.
I currently have 5gig of free space. You start with 2gig and can get an extra 250megs for completing 5 of the 6 items on the getting started tab. You also get 250megs of space for every person you refer that actually signs up and installs the app. You can acquire up to 3gig additional free space from referrals. When my daughter installs the app I will get the last 250megs of space they'll give me for free for a total of 5.25gig of free space.