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Originally Posted by bedgar
As I said, at the least, your message should say from the hard drive. Someone said that because it says "all file" and because "all files are kept on the hard drive" that it should be assumed hard drive is meant. That logic is flawed because all these files are supposed to be kept in Calibre's DB as well or at least a list of their names in some form of DB or config file etc.
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You say that if the message had read "all files on the hard disk" it would be clear to you. Sure, it would be clear to you, but not everyone thinks like you, stop assuming that what is clear to you must be clear to everyone else. And then it would be longer, which would mean less people would read it and despite you thinking that it makes it clearer, there would still be people who would just ignore it and click OK anyway, and then come and complain about it.
calibre is powerful, it lets you do powerful things. Some of those things can be dangerous, and when they are calibre warns you about them. I am not going to dumb down calibre or make it less usable for its power users in order to protect people from themselves. That is my philosophy, if you dont like it, as I said before, feel free to not use calibre, no one is forcing you to use it.