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fitzhugh · 07-22-2011, 03:28 PM

Starson17 and Dwanthny, thank you both for the helpful replies. I realized just how much I'm relying on Calibre this morning when I thought about how hard it would be to do without it (got first reader a month ago, installed Calibre first time then). Nice to see there is a helpful community to go with it.

I'm glad to hear he's considering this. Since there are easy workarounds I only feel it matters is because it acts in a way that differs from what seems reasonable to assume, and does so in a "destructive" manner (just mean it deletes original w/ no undo). I didn't lose anything and the inconvenience was less than trivial, but someone might lose something important if they expect the same result as I had. Even a popup window saying something like the following would be fine:

"Converting a file to the same format (e.g., EPUB to EPUB) will overwrite the original file. Would you like to continue?
[] yes [x]no
Note: Make a duplicate copy before running the conversion if you wish to preserve the original version."

Thanks!

07-22-2011, 03:28 PM	#4
fitzhugh Member Posts: 13 Karma: 1120 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: nook str	Thanks! Starson17 and Dwanthny, thank you both for the helpful replies. I realized just how much I'm relying on Calibre this morning when I thought about how hard it would be to do without it (got first reader a month ago, installed Calibre first time then). Nice to see there is a helpful community to go with it. I'm glad to hear he's considering this. Since there are easy workarounds I only feel it matters is because it acts in a way that differs from what seems reasonable to assume, and does so in a "destructive" manner (just mean it deletes original w/ no undo). I didn't lose anything and the inconvenience was less than trivial, but someone might lose something important if they expect the same result as I had. Even a popup window saying something like the following would be fine: "Converting a file to the same format (e.g., EPUB to EPUB) will overwrite the original file. Would you like to continue? [] yes [x]no Note: Make a duplicate copy before running the conversion if you wish to preserve the original version." Thanks!