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Originally Posted by RPGoldman
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  ) |
IMO by tacking your problem onto the back of a 4.5 year old thread you implied that you considered the cause of your problem was the same as the what caused the original posters problem - I stand by my 'it seems improbable' assertion. And the fact that you stated that the original problem was on a Windows installation indicated to me that you had not read the thread very carefully.
Many (most ?) of the reports of the "my calibre library disappeared" I've seen were caused by users
inadvertently dragging the library to another location with their file managers. I don't blame the users, I blame the IEEE, Posix should have had a nomove attribute on files and directories, like some pre-Unix/Posix file systems had.
BR