Thread: PRS-500 Hack Builder!
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Old 09-05-2007, 11:50 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by mdhuang View Post
I understand Jon's concerns. It is dangerous for an average user to try the book delete hack without knowing the problem it could cause. However, I don't think removing it is a good choice since many people have found it useful. I personally don't use collections and don't know the percentage of people using it (maybe we can have a poll?).

But I do agree we should put a WARNING in the main window of the Hack Master. May be a "Dangerous!" label in red after the hack name in the checklist?

Another option is in the code, checking a book if it is in a collection before deleting it. Though I don't think that's even possible to implement.
My concerns are that we don't know what this hack is going to do besides get stuck in an endless loop when you try to delete a book in a collection. It's an unknown. It might do nothing and just need a cycle with the on/off switch. Might start eating other files. Who knows? Do you? Can you say it won't do something that would cause other issues? It's an unknown. That's the issue.
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