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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
No that is an example of magic behavior. It makes things hard to predict. Sure you individually would be better off. But the feature as a whole becomes less predictable. Right now it is simple, incorrect permissions => no auto add.
With your proposal incorrect permissions => may or may not auto-add depending on the phase of the moon.
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Hmm. Looking at the number of threads about auto-add, it seems that it's pretty magical as it is. If the permissions are right, it adds. But sometimes the permissions are wrong, or even if they're correct, the auto-adder stalls because an anti-virus check was in progress, or... and then the files sit there, which is not the intended behaviour. We end up with "correct permissions => may or may not auto-add depending on the phase of the moon."
OK, maybe these things aren't Calibre's fault. Still, I think that this would if anything make it less magical by removing one of the potential problems for a lot of users (certainly all Unixers, most if not all Windows users). It certainly wouldn't make it behave less well than it does now.
But hey, you're the boss, and I suspect we'll have to agree to differ if this doesn't convince you...
