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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Well, I no longer fear hell for I have managed to get the bat(ty) files set up and working. During the process, I first lost all my books
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I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. It shouldn't have happened - a statement that I'm sure is of no comfort to you whatsoever.
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1. Is it necessary for me to use the first .bat file to open calibre in my e-Book library or can I just open calibre using the normal shortcut? It seems to work ok and would have the appropriate icon on the shortcut.
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The first bat file says to Calibre ""Use my original config file - it's located here ....." The old link says "start Calibre and use whatever the default config file is." The default will be at the location it's always been at. I suspect both will work fine, but I can't be sure. I suppose it's possible that while running under config2, Calibre might change the default. At worst, you'd find that the old link simply opened the new library. I'd keep both of the new bat files, just in case, but I can't see how it would hurt to use the old link if it works.
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2. Someday, I'm going to have my hard drive partitioned into two drives, one of which will be just for my OS and program files.
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That's how I'm set up.
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If the libraries, complete with the .bat files, are moved to the new second partiton (assuming I correct the path in the .bat files), will everything still work when I install calibre in the new first partiton or will I have to start over again?
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You have shortcuts to the bat files. Those will break, since you will be moving the bat files. You'll need to fix the shortcuts. The bat files themselves will work correctly, but when you run them, the configs they start up will point to the old library they were associated with, and that library will have moved. You'll just have to run Preferences once with each and point it to the new library location. From then on it will work. Bottom line - the batch files and configs don't need to be redone, but you'll need to redo things you would have broken even without the dual library setup.