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MrJamesEMcBride · 08-07-2024, 01:11 PM

A long while back, while deleting books from my library that seemed to be duplicates, it seemed that if I deleted a lot of books at once, a file was being created that seemed to be a way to undo the deletion if I needed to. I think the word 'delete' was in the filename, but I cannot remember. I thought I remembered those files being created in the root folder of the drive containing the Calibre library, but I am not sure of that.

The reason that I am asking about this is that just recently I was deleting dupes again and I am NOT seeing those files that I remember being created before, and I am wondering why.

Does Calibre have a setting somewhere that would cause something like that to happen, where it would create an "undo file" of some sort when a large number of books are deleted at once?

I am wondering if it was some kind of 3rd party tool that was doing that previously.

08-07-2024, 01:11 PM	#1
MrJamesEMcBride Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Beaver, PA Device: Samsung GalaxyTab S6 Lite	Backup file created when deleting multiple books from library?? A long while back, while deleting books from my library that seemed to be duplicates, it seemed that if I deleted a lot of books at once, a file was being created that seemed to be a way to undo the deletion if I needed to. I think the word 'delete' was in the filename, but I cannot remember. I thought I remembered those files being created in the root folder of the drive containing the Calibre library, but I am not sure of that. The reason that I am asking about this is that just recently I was deleting dupes again and I am NOT seeing those files that I remember being created before, and I am wondering why. Does Calibre have a setting somewhere that would cause something like that to happen, where it would create an "undo file" of some sort when a large number of books are deleted at once? I am wondering if it was some kind of 3rd party tool that was doing that previously.