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Going back a few years, one horrible example is one friend of mine who used iTunes. When he imported his music files into iTunes, he unchecked the Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library so he did not have duplicated files. He edited the song info to add/correct song titles, artists, albums, genre, track numbers etc. I don't know how many hours he worked on this over about 4 years.
Then he made a small mistake. His computer said it was low on disk space so he went looking for stuff he could delete. He had a directory in Downloads that he used for music downloads and during a brain cramp, he included that directory in his to be deleted selection. When he hit delete on his selections, he got the too big for the recycle bin popup and clicked on continue. No problems for a couple of weeks and then he decided to update some music on his iPad. Ooopss. Couldn't do that since the files could not be found.
We managed to recover about 80-90% of his music from an old backup (he stopped doing backups to the external hard drive because it just took too much time) and from running a scan for deleted files on his hard drive.
And as I've mentioned before, I've had some fun helping friends/acquaintances attempt to recover from calibre library corruption after they attempted to modify it's structure, store it in the cloud, etc. which may have left me feeling that anyone who mucks directly with the calibre library has the approximate IQ of a watermelon.
The other examples I've seen people mentioning have been programs such as Word, VLC, etc. where there is no database of file locations beyond the recent files list.
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