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Originally Posted by Fenrir007
It is my understanding that Calibre doesn't alter the actual location of your ebooks, instead just messing with its mirrored library. So, if I delete an ebook, it gets deleted from the Calibre mirror library, but not from the actual hard disk.
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Originally Posted by Fenrir007
What I'd like to know is how I can prevent it from reading ebooks I previosly deleted from the Calibre library when I do a new search of my ebooks dump folder (a folder where I just throw every ebook I acquire) to get the new ebooks I got.
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Scrap the 'ebook dump folder' and use the Calibre library copy as the primary copy, and take regular backups of your Calibre library folder(s).
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Originally Posted by Fenrir007
Also, is it possible to make Calibre delete a book from both its mirror library and the original location of the ebook (effectively destroying all traces of it from my PC)?
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No, calibre is an ebook library manager not a replacement for a file manager. If you heed prior advice - scrap the 'ebook dump folder' - then this question becomes redundant.
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Originally Posted by Fenrir007
Bonus question unrelated to Calibre - is there an easy way (with some software or whatnot) of purging a tree of folders of all .docs, .htmls and .txt? Subfolders included.
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Many ways - suggest you ask the question in a forum that's specific to the OS you use - Windows, OS/X or Linux.
For Windows 7 I like this one
Windows 7 Help Forums, there are similar forums for XP, Vista and Windows 8
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