Using calibre on 2 computers at the same time

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

It's an alternative to putting calibre and libraries on a flash stick, without the hazard of losing or forgetting the flash stick.

My neighbour works FIFO, she puts 'everything possible' in her cloud account. She has a laptop in her work locker and another one at home in a fire proof safe. So there's practically no chance of concurrent updates, other than via foul play.

Just occurred to me, I was doing much the same thing 25 years ago when I was building hot desk call centres and trading rooms - nothing much changes.

BR

Hey, I agree as far as that goes.

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by theducks

I use Tight VNC server.
I have Real VNC client because one of my clients uses that (has extra security).

They play nicely together (and with VNC server on Linux)

Thanks. If I keep Calibre on my laptop mainly I may not even need a VNC. But thanks for your help

[Dopedangel]

I didnt use to have problems with dropbox and calibre till version 2.0 now I have to pause dropbox then turn it on again otherwise calibre gives me errors while editing metadata.
But I always knew I was living dangerously what can I say I like to live with dangerously

[nqk]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Yes indeed.

Actually, it is even more secure to do a one-way mirror sync from your calibre libraries to their Dropbox backup, which renders that redundant, but...

Anyway, my workflow:

1. pause dropbox.
2. start calibre. Library is stored outside Dropbox.
3. stop calibre.
4. rsync script copies changes from calibre libraries to the Calibre Libraries folder in Dropbox
5. start dropbox, sync all changes using the redundant clone

Another method is to use symbolic link. Database folder is outside dropbox, a symbolic folder is in Dropbox.

You can keep dropbox running to sync other folders. The Symbolic folder only gets synced when you pause and resume Dropbox.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by nqk

Another method is to use symbolic link. Database folder is outside dropbox, a symbolic folder is in Dropbox.

You can keep dropbox running to sync other folders. The Symbolic folder only gets synced when you pause and resume Dropbox.

Do not rely on known bugs to continue being bugs in order to achieve your purpose.

And even then that will only work on Windows. Not linux or OSX.