[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: Changing title or author to uppercase/lowercase causes book to disappear (French Language)

2018-10-07 Thread jeffmcneill
Yeah, I risk my data with broken ass applications like Calibre all the time. That is why I have Gdrive as a backup. Get real. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758548 Tit

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: calibre bug 1758548

2018-10-07 Thread Kovid Goyal
Because all of those utilities are editors, that work on one file at a time. Anyway, I dont really care whether you believe me or not. File systems are not atomic, that is a fact. Waving your hands and saying X, Y or Z magically work, just means that you have been lucky enough to avoid running into

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: Changing title or author to uppercase/lowercase causes book to disappear (French Language)

2018-10-07 Thread jeffmcneill
Actually, every other piece of software I use has no problem with being synched to gdrive. Calibre is the only thing that breaks. Clearly this has to do with a difference in the way Calibre functions, rather than NAS or file synchronization operations. Everything else is quite robust, including abo

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: calibre bug 1758548

2018-10-07 Thread Kovid Goyal
filesystems have no concept of atomic operations. You cannot have multiple software accessing the same set of files at the same time and expect things to magically work. If you put your calibrelibrary on a NAS or a folder that is modified by other software, things *will* break. https://manual.cal