![]() ![]() TagSpaces offers you a way to do exactly that. Wouldn’t it be great if you could organize all of your photos, videos, files, invoices, recipes, and other things in one place regardless of what device or platform you were working on? At the very least, it would probably end up saving you a ton of space on your various devices, don’t you think? I'm willing to listen to contrary views if you think I'm wrong.A handy cross-platform, tag-oriented file manager (Sorry if I've thrown cold water on those who are happy with dropbox, but that's how I see it. I keep a single copy of Calibre, but can access it worldwide via phone, PDA and laptop. I also run a backup.įinally, consider whether the remote access of content server will do what you need with less risk. ![]() I do run a sync program, but I do it manually. I don't know how dropbox is designed, but just be careful and make backups. I would hope that you could at least run dropbox in a manual update mode to prevent inadvertent overwrites. Or you may update the database on computer 1, which updates dropbox, but computer 2 did not gain internet access until you were in the middle of Calibre. That can arise when the clock is wrong on one machine due to daylight savings time errors. Any time dropbox thinks it has a newer file, it's likely to want to overwrite. It seems to me it's more than just the risk of running two copies of Calibre at the same time. I'm not saying it's likely, but I don't want to risk it. You may be risking the loss of your Calibre database. The reason you should not run two copies of Calibre at the same time and pointed to the same library is because the first version of Calibre may be doing something important when the second tries to change the database.īy using dropbox, you are doing the same thing. It's only minor until it bites you in the you-know-what. ![]() Kovid has said that calibre isn't written to expect changes to the database from external sources. One thing you should be aware of is that you can't run Calibre on more than one at the same time. or turning to your left and speaking directly to them. It's like the difference between you sending an email to your spouse that is sitting right next to you on the sofa. The software takes advantage of the fact that the PC's can communicate directly with each other and transfers the data locally rather than having 2 or 3 or whatever PC's all d/l the same data from the internet. the "peer-to-peer" syncing is only a technical implementation detail. Can someone explain this?Īctually Dropbox will sync any PCs you have connected to it no matter where you make the change and if they are on a LAN together or not. Peer-to-peer sounds like just what I need. But I would like to have the option to make a change on either the desktop or netbook, and have that reflected on the other two as well. If I make a change on the laptop, I want it to automatically change on the desktop and netbook. I want my main library to be on my laptop, and sync to the desktop and netbook. I was going to ask how to get them all the same, and it sounds like you 3 have figured out how to do it. ![]()
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