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Old 12-14-2023, 05:10 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by jdrpersonal21 View Post
I see Calibre's new trash system and think it is generally a good thing to do it this way. But there does seem to be one major problem - there's no good way to preserve the files you may not want in Calibre easily. Yes, you can right click them and save - but you'd have to save each one individually, which, depending on the circumstances, could be very tedious. And if you permanently delete them, they disappear entirely, instead of going to trash bin for the user to delete themselves. This is a problem for me, because I often remove files out of my calibre that I still may want to keep, and I end up merging a lot of entries for various reasons, so saving each individually is madness.

Please give users an opportunity to either save deleted files in bulk, or send deleted files to the system's trash, instead of deleting them permanently all together.
One partial solution to your problem is to make multiple backups using FreeFileSync. After the first copy of each backup set, you will only copy/change what's changed for each backup set.

This way if you do delete something you want to keep but it's no longer in calibre's trash, all you have to do is get the books from the backup library
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