Calibre with library on mapped network drive

litiki777 · 10-30-2012, 04:30 AM

I am using Calibre 0.9.4 on Windows 7. I have a folder named 'media' on my D: drive to store all media formats as:
D:\media\musics
D:\media\movies
D:\media\ebooks

I am creating a mapped network drive M: to point to D:\media\ebooks and attempt to create a Calibre library at M:\calibre (which is the same as D:\media\ebooks\calibre). I'm very surprised that I cannot create a Calibre library that way. Calibre gives me an error as:
---
Corrupted database: The library database at M:\calibre appears to be corrupted. Do you want calibre to try and rebuild it automatically? The rebuild may not be completely successful.
---
Weird! M:\calibre is completely empty and has all R/W permission. Creating the library under D:\media\ebooks\calibre is OK with no problem. I would like to know if this is a known problem with Calibre ? And is ther any way to make it work with mapped network drive ?
Thanks

kovidgoyal · 10-30-2012, 05:31 AM

Do not put your calibre library on networked drives. Bad things will happen.

10-30-2012, 04:30 AM	#1
litiki777 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Asus TF101	Calibre with library on mapped network drive I am using Calibre 0.9.4 on Windows 7. I have a folder named 'media' on my D: drive to store all media formats as: D:\media\musics D:\media\movies D:\media\ebooks I am creating a mapped network drive M: to point to D:\media\ebooks and attempt to create a Calibre library at M:\calibre (which is the same as D:\media\ebooks\calibre). I'm very surprised that I cannot create a Calibre library that way. Calibre gives me an error as: --- Corrupted database: The library database at M:\calibre appears to be corrupted. Do you want calibre to try and rebuild it automatically? The rebuild may not be completely successful. --- Weird! M:\calibre is completely empty and has all R/W permission. Creating the library under D:\media\ebooks\calibre is OK with no problem. I would like to know if this is a known problem with Calibre ? And is ther any way to make it work with mapped network drive ? Thanks

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10-30-2012, 05:31 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,221 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Do not put your calibre library on networked drives. Bad things will happen.