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Old 05-04-2011, 05:23 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by dz1 View Post
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.
The delete operation is meant to be permanent. That's a feature. Delete library is an action that is meant to be

1) rare, you do not typically delete libraries in daily use
2) permanent.
3) A library can potentially be many GB of data. It would take forever to move all the files into the recycle bin and IIRC recycle bins typically have a max capacity

If you delete individual books from a library, they will be sent to the recycle bin.

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