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Old 05-04-2011, 09:15 PM   #63
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Any suggestions on how to make it even clearer are most welcome.
Okay please keep in mind that I'm a hardware and hammer kind of guy NOT a programmer so if my idea is stupid then just say so.

Can you -reasonably- design the delete function to only remove "calibre" related files? (may be by extension or tag or something) so that if a file isn't a .PDF or .MOBI or .EPUB or whatever then Calibre won't touch it?

I have almost no idea how difficult such a safeguard would be to create and "the juice may not be worth the squeeze", I'm just brainstorming here.

Alternately I suppose maybe you could program Calibre to only work inside a folder called Calibre (wherever you choose to locate it) and have it unable to do anything to any file outside of that "Calibre" folder.

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