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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Given that its 4 years and 4 months between the original post to this thread, and your post today and these usage statistics http://status.calibre-ebook.com/ it seems improbable that calibre has a defect that could cause an entire library to disappear without a trace.
BTW the originator of this thread was using EXT3 on Ubuntu Linux. Windows was mentioned in respect of two other unnamed 3rd party programs that were alleged to have done similar things. And MR member itimpi mentioned Windows as the possible culprit before it became apparent that the OP wasn't running Windows.
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If you search for "calibre library disappeared" in Google, you find
many hits. So I don't agree that it's improbable that Calibre has a defect. Indeed, based on google results, I draw exactly the opposite conclusion. On mobile reader alone, I see 4 results, and there are similar questions on other boards.
If I had somehow messed this up, either moving or removing the files accidentally, (a) the files should have been found using "find" or searchlight, or (b) if I had deleted the files, they should have been found in the Mac's trash (which has not been emptied in months).
Since my books are gone completely, I am inclined to believe that this was done at a level below the Mac's GUI (using the equivalent of Unix's "rm" command). I will see if I can figure out when this happened by looking at my disk backups when I return from my trip (with much of my library inaccessible
)