HELP Portable Calibre will not read standard Calible database

[ayoshak]

Hi All,

The external drive is 2Tb and cannot be formatted with FAT.

All files on that drive are accessible to everyone, there are no restrictions that I can see in properties. The same disk is used as a software storage, photo storage and business backups storage, and now as eBooks storage. A copy of the entire disk is regularly updated as a main backup. The disk is used to transfer my files between several PCs, most mine and some of my friends. There has never been any issue of files not being accessible by any user. But all those PCs run XP (home and prof).

I will try as advised.

As I write I connected the disk back to desktop, removed the simple sharing option from folder options and manually allowed full access to that disk for Everyone. It took some 10 min to finish that process. I connected it back to Win7 laptop, returned the User Account Control Settings to the previous value. After restart, I powered up the portable Calibre and all is well, the library is accessible.

Thanks to all who tried to solve this problem, especially to Adoby who nailed it.

It just shows, with MS you never stop learning.
I built my own tower with water cooling, replaced 3 motherboards since than, installed XP a number of times here and there, and yet never had the need to go there, and fiddle with user permissions.

Ayosha

[theducks]

ayoshak
FAT and FAT32 are not the same

FAT was created when a 2T drive was beyond imagination.
And they did not raise the sites high enough for FAT32

You can Partition the drive so chunks (a single partition) stays under the File system Limit.
You can also have different FS structures on the same spindle, some will just not be recognized by Windows. AFAIK everybody does FAT32, Windows (2K>) and Linux do NTFS

[BetterRed]

At one time you could install NTFS on just about anything - I had it on OS/2 Warp and Solaris. IIRC MS ditched installable NTFS as a supported product, when NT morphed into 2K.

BR