Storing library on external drive?

[csg1964]

Hello, all!

I have done some reading, on the site and here, but haven't found my specific issue.

I want to store my vast library on a new external drive I purchased.

I went through browsing/finding a new folder I created on the external and selected to move my library.

However - only PART of it copied over. About 50%. And the location of my library is still listed as my laptop.

Any understanding as to what might have happened, and how I might correct this?

TIA,
Cary

[theducks]

Originally Posted by csg1964

Hello, all!

I have done some reading, on the site and here, but haven't found my specific issue.

I want to store my vast library on a new external drive I purchased.

I went through browsing/finding a new folder I created on the external and selected to move my library.

However - only PART of it copied over. About 50%. And the location of my library is still listed as my laptop.

Any understanding as to what might have happened, and how I might correct this?

TIA,
Cary

How was the drive formatted (the file system type)?

How did you do the copy (O/S or use Calibre)?

As long as the drive connection/power is reliable (cat proof )

Speaking of Power. How is the drive powered (IMHO External is better than USB only.)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

How was the drive formatted (the file system type)?

How did you do the copy (O/S or use Calibre)?

As long as the drive connection/power is reliable (cat proof )

Speaking of Power. How is the drive powered (IMHO External is better than USB only.)

- but if drive has no external power then at least use a double usb cable



In this instance I would copy the library from internal to external with OS. Then 'attach' it to calibre via Library->Switch/Create and 'drop' the old library via Library->Remove library.

If its really big then I would use a robust copy utility (eg Robocopy - Richcopy for a GUI).

And unless there was a very good reason not to, I would format the drive to the preferred file system of the OS - Windows NTFS, OSX HFS+, Linux Ext 3. Calibre will exploit the features of those file systems to do things faster, and thus more robustly (the sooner something is done the less chance there is of something going wrong - e.g. power fail)

BR