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A mystery. Never had this happen before.

But...this morning only one of my scheduled newsfeed downloads succeeded, and was automatically emailed to kindle. The other two were not on my kindle so I checked the computer to find that it had restarted and was now on the "start" screen waiting for the PIN to be entered. (So calibre was not running)

After letting the PC finish restarting I checked calibre and found that in the "fetch news" section there were NO scheduled downloads, the whole "scheduled" category was gone. in addition, any actually downloaded issues of periodicals prior to yesterday had been deleted from the library. Yesterday's downloads and today's single issue were not deleted. I do have some of those scheduled feeds set to keep only back issue, other s to keep all issues. But basically all the back issues had been deleted.

I don't know why the computer restarted after only one scheduled download. That's usually due to a Windows update, I checked and found there were no updates today (It's Sunday!). I also got a warning from OneDrive (where my calibre library is stored) that 498 files had been deleted from the calibre library folder. It kept those deletions as "pending" and offered to restore them if I wanted to.

Fortunately I managed to repair the damage. With the OneDrive warning about the massive deletion, I was able to reverse the deletion of that batch of files and had OneDrive "restore" them. Interestingly, they were "restored" to the Calibre "trash" folder, so I presume that is where they came from. So all those 498 files had been deleted from the calibre library, presumably by calibre itself, and had been moved to calibre's trash folder, and were then immediately deleted from the trash folder. OneDrive could only have noted files deleted from the trash folder. If calibre removes library files and puts them in trash, OneDrive would consider that "moving" files, not deleting them. and so that would not raise any red flags.

I then used calibre to "restore" the removed files from trash.

I also have several backup programs on my PC and I used one of them find that calibre's "scheduler.xml" file had been deleted this morning a little after 5:00am, about the time of the first scheduled download (successful) of the Economist's Espresso. It must have been at the time the computer restarted itself. I copied that backed up file back to the calibre older in Users/AppData/Roaming. I then restarted calibre and all the "schedules" (all 14) were back in the "fetch news" section.

I have no idea why this all happened and may never know. But at least all the backup services I have worked as they should have and I was able to restore things.

btw this was calibre 6.17