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Old 11-27-2013, 02:28 PM   #16
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I solved this topic with Dropbox. Both Calibre settings and Calibre library folders are on dropbox and I pointed Calibre to them. I use it from home and office pc. Everything is fine and everything is identical.
I think I had some problems with running Content server and upgrading Calibre simultaneously due to locking some files but i guess you know you should be careful on this.
Dropbox is indeed a brilliant solution... assuming you are using either 2 Windows computers, or 2 linux computers. This is not the case here. Syncing, whether with Dropbox or Copy or SugarSync or rsync or anything whatsoever, will still mess up when Windows tries to sync garbage to linux:

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Please note that you may experience problems if your laptop runs Windows and you sync to a Linux computer. Windows and Linux have different case sensitivity for filenames. In Windows the file "The Hobbit.epub" and the file "the hobbit.epub" is the same filename. But in Linux it is two different filenames.
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