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slantybard · 01-05-2012, 07:16 PM

Well, I did something even WORSE. I managed to delete 11 gb of documents using calibre2opds. I am on a mac and when I ran the latest stable version using opds as output for my dropbox account, I got a warning about not using my calibre library, however, it never warned me to make a new directory for the output. I just pointed the output to my "documents" library and voila, all the documents deleted.

I was somewhat lucky in that I do have backups, but still, I lost a month window since my last increment. Just goes to show you how easy it is to make assumptions and be wrong.

I think there should be a small warning that pops up when using the output or even a forced new folder making to save newbies.

01-05-2012, 07:16 PM	#26
slantybard my parent's oops... Posts: 464 Karma: 1477570 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Vx->Handera->Clie-> Axim->505->650->KPW/Aura ->iOS/L2	Well, I did something even WORSE. I managed to delete 11 gb of documents using calibre2opds. I am on a mac and when I ran the latest stable version using opds as output for my dropbox account, I got a warning about not using my calibre library, however, it never warned me to make a new directory for the output. I just pointed the output to my "documents" library and voila, all the documents deleted. I was somewhat lucky in that I do have backups, but still, I lost a month window since my last increment. Just goes to show you how easy it is to make assumptions and be wrong. I think there should be a small warning that pops up when using the output or even a forced new folder making to save newbies.