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Originally Posted by chaley
The first time I saw something like this was in 1975 at Berkeley. A student typed "rm -rf ." in his home directory, then went ballistic when all his files were deleted. He blamed me (the teaching assistant on duty) for letting him do it. He went as far as to complain to the prof for the class about my inattentiveness. The prof told him to go pound sand.
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I've no idea what "rm -rf" does, but a fellow student of mine, in the good old DOS age, once did a "deltree *. -y" (or something like that, my dos commands are getting rusty...) on the root of his C-drive... He only blamed himself
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Originally Posted by theducks
Only a fool stores the original file on the Desktop
All of the desktop shortcuts can be rebuilt with small pain.
My rule: 'Any file on the desktop is Trash can padding'  |
My mother used to store her mails in her deleted item folder... Until I found out and explained that that is just the trash can of her email client... She's much better now
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@CRussel: I'm worried that the longer I make the message, the less likely people are to read it.
@mrmikel: calibre (as of several months ago) does not let you choose a non empty folder when creating a new library. I suspect the OP created his library before that feature was added.
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Or you could do what Microsoft does, ask, ask again, ask again because you might have made a mistake the first and second time, and then ask again, to be completely sure. And maybe even ask again after that!