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Originally Posted by Quoth
Short solution: Don't store Calibre Library on OneDrive.
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Sorry, I don't buy that. I've located the Calibre Library in the OneDrive directory (with the setting to always keep the local copy on the local drive) for well over 10 years. Never a problem. Nothing.
And if you'll read carefully, with what happened today OneDrive was not the problem. OneDrive didn't "remove" all the calibre authored newfeeds from the library folder and put them in the calibre trash. And OneDrive didn't immediately delete everything from the calibre trash folder instead of retaining the files for 14 days.
OneDrive worked exactly as it should have. As a matter of fact, if OneDrive had not alerted me the mass deletion of 498 files (1,4GB) I might never have known this had even happened. And it was OneDrive that enable me to easily recover those deleted files. I could also have recovered them with my three other backup programs (Second Copy, Acronis, and Macrium). But none of those programs alerted me to the mass deletion.
The only thing I noticed, before I noticed the OneDrive alert about the deletions, was that calibre failed to download The New York Times and The Washington Post. And when I checked on that I found that the entire "scheduled" list in the "fetch news" section had disappeared completely. It took a while to track down where calibre stored that file (I had to schedule a couple of items so that the file would become "recreated"). I finaly found it and then could hunt in my backup programs to find the file that was deleted around 5:00am this morning. And that file is NOT STORED IN THE ONEDRIVE FOLDER. And calibre itself is not installed in the OneDrive folder.
So OneDrive is not an issue. Calibre might be. Or Windows might be; why did it even restart - there was no update going on. Did calibre throw a big error and trigger a restart? Don't know any of that. But I am confident OneDrive was a boon, not a bane.