Database compatibility

[mwheinz]

I've been sharing my calibre database between two remote machines (home and work) - but my old, old, old (did I mention old?) work laptop is finally being replaced which means the even older PowerMac tower I've been using (because the laptop was useless) will also be retired.

This means that if I want to share the calibre library, I'll be sharing between a Mac and a Win7 box.

Are the two systems compatibile? Is this going to work or am I just asking for trouble by trying it?

[Manichean]

Although I don't know if that particular combination has been tried, I've up till today not heard of any (unsolvable) problems concerning sharing a library between multiple systems of whatever flavour. Just be sure not to access the library from both machines at the same time.

[mwheinz]

Manichean - thanks for the reply; and you're right to warn about no simultaneous access (I spend most of my debugging problems in large machine clusters).

I just wanted to make sure there were no basic differences in layout.

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by mwheinz

Manichean - thanks for the reply; and you're right to warn about no simultaneous access (I spend most of my debugging problems in large machine clusters).

I just wanted to make sure there were no basic differences in layout.

I don't know about mac but you can't share between linux and Windows as linux treats capital and small letter as different where as windows treats them the same so it causes problems with the directories.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

I don't know about mac but you can't share between linux and Windows as linux treats capital and small letter as different where as windows treats them the same so it causes problems with the directories.

Are you sure? I seem to remember there being working examples of this configuration...

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

I don't know about mac but you can't share between linux and Windows as linux treats capital and small letter as different where as windows treats them the same so it causes problems with the directories.

You CAN share between Linux and Windows if one is aware of this issue. The key point is to not make changes on Windows to the Author or Title fields that are merely case changes. As long as the change is more significant than just a Case change the the resulting folders and files end up with their names matching the case stored in the Calibre database.