Calibre and dropbox - epub books disappeared??

[Antheia]

Hello,

After years of storing my epub library on my laptop, I started storing them in my dropbox instead (only very recently).

Now, I only see an opf file for the metadata, and the cover. My entire epub library seems to have disappeared!

Can you help?

Kind regards,
Clarissa.

[Sirtel]

Possibly you could retrieve them from the file history in Dropbox.

You must never, ever have Dropbox running while Calibre is open. That leads to library corruption pretty fast.

[theducks]

Calibre is NOT intended to run with data from the cloud.
Keep a copy (shadow only. Not 2 way) of the Library, Yes. But as Sirtel noted: Sync must be paused.
Calibre does things in sequences. Break or delays can wreck havoc with those steps.

[dhampny]

Originally Posted by theducks

Calibre is NOT intended to run with data from the cloud.
Keep a copy (shadow only. Not 2 way) of the Library, Yes. But as Sirtel noted: Sync must be paused.
Calibre does things in sequences. Break or delays can wreck havoc with those steps.

I have kept my Calibre library resident in my Dropbox account for a couple of years now with no problems. I do this so I can access my library from my home computer as well as my laptop when away. However, I am always very careful to not have Calibre open on both computers at the same time. I'm on Macs but I wouldn't think it would make a difference if you were on PCs.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by dhampny

I have kept my Calibre library resident in my Dropbox account for a couple of years now with no problems. I do this so I can access my library from my home computer as well as my laptop when away. However, I am always very careful to not have Calibre open on both computers at the same time. I'm on Macs but I wouldn't think it would make a difference if you were on PCs.

We only point out "Best Practice" recommendations, not a 'you might get away with this (until you don't ) reply.
This is also troubleshooting, the only OFFICIAL install type is supported. Kovid does not have the time to invest debugging every possible user install variant.
And I sure don't want to spend a lot of time with a single persons 'weird' install. If they can GET IT TO WORK THEIR WAY, more power to them... But...

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by dhampny

I have kept my Calibre library resident in my Dropbox account for a couple of years now with no problems. I do this so I can access my library from my home computer as well as my laptop when away. However, I am always very careful to not have Calibre open on both computers at the same time. I'm on Macs but I wouldn't think it would make a difference if you were on PCs.

I have the same arrangement (except on Windows) and "have gotten away with it", so far. But I run Library Maintenance regularly, because conflicted copies do creep in, nevertheless. And in addition to not having Calibre open on both computers, I also never have Dropbox running on both at the same time, or Dropbox running while Calibre is open. One can never be too careful.