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lostinlodos · 06-14-2023, 04:04 PM

Guess we’re just on opposite sides. I like clean and tidy. I never lost the floppy-n-20-meg aspect no matter how big drives get.

I’ll agree with you on cleaners in general. Not good for most consumers, though CMM X is probably the safest I’ve seen.

I have a 5 drive LTO 8 system in a modified OWC rack. A rolling backup and tapes for individual projects. At 12GB a tape for $40 it’s worth it to me. I don’t mind a cup of coffee while I ware to transfer a project vm image back to disk. LTO 8 isn’t as slow as you may think it is. I had previously used two LTO 5 drives. One for backup and one for swapping for various uses. But I still use and develop on older retro platforms. Outside of modern games and mega database systems, speed isn’t really a concern for me. Running doom eternal from a tap library is insane. But loading a spreadsheet, or a virtual image, or an ebook, … not all that bad.

The rest is simple. You have a new feature that makes sense to you.
You miss the trash concern.
Previously deleting all copies of a file in calibre deleted the folder containing it. Meta files and all.
The new method: creates a series of folders under the calibre trash hidden folder. Those folders are left behind on clearing if something other than the book is added. In my case the index files (db files) for my disk indexer.
That throws my search function for a bit of a loop with an error that files are missing when it checks the indexes.
So I can understand how that would be an issue for other less common setups.

What I stated isn’t intrusive or problematic. Just a simple option to disable extended storage of “deleted” files.

06-14-2023, 04:04 PM	#90
lostinlodos Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: multi	Guess we’re just on opposite sides. I like clean and tidy. I never lost the floppy-n-20-meg aspect no matter how big drives get. I’ll agree with you on cleaners in general. Not good for most consumers, though CMM X is probably the safest I’ve seen. I have a 5 drive LTO 8 system in a modified OWC rack. A rolling backup and tapes for individual projects. At 12GB a tape for $40 it’s worth it to me. I don’t mind a cup of coffee while I ware to transfer a project vm image back to disk. LTO 8 isn’t as slow as you may think it is. I had previously used two LTO 5 drives. One for backup and one for swapping for various uses. But I still use and develop on older retro platforms. Outside of modern games and mega database systems, speed isn’t really a concern for me. Running doom eternal from a tap library is insane. But loading a spreadsheet, or a virtual image, or an ebook, … not all that bad. The rest is simple. You have a new feature that makes sense to you. You miss the trash concern. Previously deleting all copies of a file in calibre deleted the folder containing it. Meta files and all. The new method: creates a series of folders under the calibre trash hidden folder. Those folders are left behind on clearing if something other than the book is added. In my case the index files (db files) for my disk indexer. That throws my search function for a bit of a loop with an error that files are missing when it checks the indexes. So I can understand how that would be an issue for other less common setups. What I stated isn’t intrusive or problematic. Just a simple option to disable extended storage of “deleted” files.