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Old 04-18-2016, 03:56 PM   #1
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I currently use Drop box cloud storage for my library storage.

I use Calibre Companion version 5.1.1.3(327) to view my books when I'm not home.

here is what I run into. when viewing books in Companion I notice that Companion hasn't updated the new books that I've added.

is there a sync function in Calibre companion that will update and show the new eBooks?

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Are you asking if there is a way to use CC's cloud connection to see books in your calibre library that are not in CC? If so then the answer is yes. Use CC Cloud to connect to Dropbox, tap on the "On Device" category, then "No". You will see all the books that are not in CC. Tap the menu button (the three dots) and choose "Download all".

Note that this is also easy to do using the wireless device connection. Connect CC to calibre, search for ondevice:false, select all the books the search finds, then click Send to device. The wireless device connection also automatically updates all the metadata for the books in CC, and can (optionally) ask calibre to send any books that have changed since the last time you connected.

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here is what I run into. when viewing books in Companion I notice that Companion hasn't updated the new books that I've added.
In theory when you connect to the cloud CC verifies that the metadata.db matches the metadata.db file in the cloud. If they are different it re-downloads the metadata.db file and CC will show everything in the new section that is new in your Dropbox version of your calibre library.

It sounds as if the metadata.db file in dropbox was not updated prior to connecting CC so the "new" books didn't yet exist in dropbox. Is it possible your dropbox version of metadata.db had yet to fully sync with the version on the computer you run calibre from.
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