Path length for calibre portable

[Martin]

After getting an Office 365 installation I started using OneDrive.
So I moved my existing calibre portable installation from D:\Library to C:\..\USER\..\OneDrive\Library
As I tried to start calibre there was no reaction.

I tried to install the latest version of calibre portable. Now i got the message about 59 characters long path.
It would be nice to have calibre-portable.exe issue the same message instead of just doing nothing.

Reference: #961780 Path to Calibre Portable too long

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Do not put your calibre library in a OneDrive folder, you will lose
data.
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#i-am-getting-errors-with-my-calibre-library-on-a-networked-drive-nas

As for adding a path length check in calibre-portable.exe, that is
certainly something that could be done, in addition to having it in the
installer.

[Martin (mh57)]

Thank you for the warning of loosing data.

As my primary need is backup, this works for me:
- Running calibre with a local library path
- robocopy the library to OneDrive (various automation possible)
- In OneDrive I set "Free up space" for the target directory for not having data twice on the HD.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased