Reloading Metadata.db

[dcoulombe]

Hello Kovid,

I run a content server to provide a library do Haitian schools.
I just noticed that any change to the library (adding/removing documents)
can be viewed in the schools ONLY after Calibre is shut down and restarted.
I believe that the METADATA file is read by the content server when it loads,
and then 'lives' with it until restarted.

Would it be possible to add a button to 'Activate changes' or 'Reload Metadata' so that I don't have to shutdown Calibre everytime I change the content?

Another way to circumvent this problem would be to automatically stop and restart the server periodically. Would it be possible to add some scheduler within the server so that I could tell it to stop and restard at some specified time?

It would be great if these functions could be made available.

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

If you run the server from within calibre any changes you make will be live automatically. I am assuming you are using calibre 4.x

[dcoulombe]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

If you run the server from within calibre any changes you make will be live automatically. I am assuming you are using calibre 4.x

Thanks for the fast reply! I am using the latest version (14.15)... It doesn't look like the changes I make are live. But I must be doing something wrong... I will triple check and try to figure out what I am missing. Maybe it is due to the setup... The drive holding the library is a network disk, accessed remotely. I suppose that might cause the problem. I'll check that.

Thanks again!

[nqk]

Originally Posted by dcoulombe

Thanks for the fast reply! I am using the latest version (14.15)... It doesn't look like the changes I make are live. But I must be doing something wrong... I will triple check and try to figure out what I am missing. Maybe it is due to the setup... The drive holding the library is a network disk, accessed remotely. I suppose that might cause the problem. I'll check that.

Thanks again!

Say, you have an edited epub and you try to replace it by copy-paste (in the book folder), it doesn't work. You must update it via the calibre content-server or the calibre main app. That's my experience.