[Joyful]

I'm waiting a good amount of time because I learned from my older Kobo that it takes a while for Calibre to see it.

I'm not sure what you mean by the connect to folder feature.
Do you mean dragging and dropping my epubs into my Kobo folder? I've just done that and it works but the metadata hasn't been applied (although I copied the opf file as well and isn't that the metadata file created within Calibre?)
No worries, at least I can get my own files to read onto the Kobo but I sure miss Calibre.