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Originally Posted by lostinlodos
I have yet to see a stable OS with a faulty trash system.
Restore, recover, return, put back….
It works on every major OS.
I welcome any screen shots or video showing otherwise: it doesn’t happen aside from major hard drive issues or malware.
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It doesn't work at all, ever, with any application on any OS that uses a file for content but all the management and metadata is in a database. Few databases use an internal "binary blob" column, most store large data as files and the column has the file name relative to the database's media folder.
Access, MSDE, MS SQL, dBaseII, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLight: The designers will put "imported" files (Word, ebooks, archive scans, images etc in a folder/directory that's logically private. A binary blob approach of storing the imported data inside the actual database engine works badly for ebooks, images, scanned documents and MS Office files or similar. They are too large and varied in size. It's not impossible, but works poorly.
In such cases you have to restore the file (from trash/bin/recycle) to somewhere outside the database's file system and freshly "add / import". So Calibre has added a private application specific "trash can" which I assume somehow also stores the metadata in a companion file.