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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sigh, I see you are just not going to accept that you made a mistake. I'll try to explain what you did to you one last time:

1) You chose your desktop as the calibre library
2) You then created a new library
3) You asked calibre to delete your old library, which was your desktop
4) calibre then asked you the following question:

All files from C:\Users\your username\Desktop will be 
                permanently deleted. Are you sure?

5) You clicked Yes.
6) calibre deleted, as it said it would, all the files in C:\Users\your username\Desktop
7) Then you decided to throw a hissy fit, in public.

Grow up.

So make any deleted files go to the recycle bin rather than having them permanently deleted. It's a simple solution that you should have thought of before, and it would have saved me a lot of aggravation if you had included such a simple safeguard in your program.