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Another little trick to keep yourself out of trouble. Create a user account, and use that instead of the admin account. Sometimes I have to log out as user and log back in as administrator to do something, but it really gives me time to think.
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PEBCAK errors and ID-Ten-T errors are untrappable and often unrecoverable. Quote:
If this was a genuine Calibre problem instead of a user error, others of the million or so regular Calibre users would have said something. There's a website I'm very fond of -- www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com -- which, aside from being an excellent place to find out if a site is borked or just my connection is, is also an excellent reminder that I am not alone -- if I'm the only person who is reporting a problem, it's probably just me, and I should look into what I'm doing wrong. Especially before I make a fool of myself in public. |
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But I like the new message, especially the extra warning that non-book files will be deleted as well. That might have not been too clear (wouldn't know, personally, as I haven't deleted a library yet) |
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I certainly like the new warning too. I was speaking against having a "Are you sure? - Are you REALLY sure? - Do you REALLY, REALLY know what you're doing? - Seriously?" kind of message. |
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In some of our apps we have a setting to enable/disable specific warnings. Still, though....storing important data on the Windows desktop... ![]() |
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So do I... In case you still hadn't noticed, I was in jest on that one...
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I think the apt analogy here is leaving knives where kids can reach them. No amount of warning will deter a young one from using it as (s)he pleases.
What I would suggest is boxing off these things into a "Power User" mode which can be enabled either through an admin user or through a "Power user Mode" checkbox at the minimum. |
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As I read thru here, I had two ideas, both of which were already mentioned:
1. I liked the idea of adding to the deletion dialog the fact that non-ebooks will be deleted. Thanks for adding that! 2. I also liked the idea of the countdown timer. In this case I don't know if it would have helped, but I know that there have been a couple times in the past I've deleted something (in other software), then a half-second later realized that I made a mistake. Of course that would depend on the user actively considering their action while they're waiting... The wait can also be a pain, but since this shouldn't be a frequent action, I wouldn't think it would be a big deal to wait. At least I wouldn't mind a 5 second countdown for something that could have catastrophic results if I screw it up. One other idea that someone mentioned that I liked was the idea of a file count of what might be deleted. I know you want to keep the deletion message simple, and I don't know how hard that would be to code, or what kind of delay might be involved while the program gathers the info. But that might be useful info to see. If I'm expecting to see 2k files deleted, and it shows 100k, I might catch the mistake. Don't know if it would have helped this user or not, but it might help other users... Then again, it won't help if the user doesn't pay attention. But if it's not hard to code... Oh, and as always, thanks a bunch for all the work you've put into this! You've done a great job! |
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I am a civil engineer for my daytime job, specialising in roads and drainage. Our mantra when designing a road is simply...
"You cannot cater for the [insert your choice of epithet here] silly 2% of road users all the time." I certainly think that is completely applicable here. I shudder when I see PC users at work with all sorts of documents on their desktop, which are not safe and sound in appropriate folders that are backed up each night. |
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dz1 will not find a better program the Calibre. Calibre is the only eBook manager which I will ever use. Thank you Team!!
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I usually move all my converted titles to/from appropriately named folders (txt, pdb, html, PDF) to (fiction, tech, theology) on redundant media, SDHC (multiple copies) for safekeeping.
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Hmmm, After reading this topic with interest (thanks for the laugh Manichean by the way
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"rm -rf /" is no fun anymore
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