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BetterRed · 06-20-2019, 06:16 AM

IIRC - if you do a mass delete in calibre, it asks if you want to really want to put the books in the Recycle Bin, there must be a threshold, something like a 100 books or more.

If you respond with No it does a hard delete and then they are gone for ever**. It takes calibre a longer to dump them in the bin because they are copied there (read and write) rather than moved (change location).

** You could recover fragments with a file system tool, but it would be a mess, if you can get them off your device or from source that would be 500% safer.

BR

06-20-2019, 06:16 AM	#8
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,778 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	IIRC - if you do a mass delete in calibre, it asks if you want to really want to put the books in the Recycle Bin, there must be a threshold, something like a 100 books or more. If you respond with No it does a hard delete and then they are gone for ever. It takes calibre a longer to dump them in the bin because they are copied there (read and write) rather than moved (change location). You could recover fragments with a file system tool, but it would be a mess, if you can get them off your device or from source that would be 500% safer. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 06-20-2019 at 06:20 AM.