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Originally Posted by itimpi
I run my system with the Calibre library on the network (via a mapped drive) , but my metadata.db file held locally with its location specified by the CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH environment variable. I launch Calibre via a batch file that sets this up. This seems to work without any issues for me. I then have the batch file I use to launch Calibre set to copy the metadata.db file back from the local location to the Calibre library held on the network drive.
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That sounds like how I'd like it to work, I'll give it a try.
I'm wondering about that last step you mention, though. I'm on a Mac and there are issues with launching apps from shell scripts (batch file equivalent). Why do you need to copy the metadata.db back to the network drive?