How to stop Calibre from creating a Recycle Bin?

zentiment · 09-09-2011, 01:38 AM

I keep my Calibre library on an external USB hard drive. Ten percent of my drive is a whopping 200 Gigabytes, so I have changed my settings in Windows Explorer to manage bins on each drive separately and turn off the recycle bin on that drive. I just make sure I really want to delete anything from that drive before I do so. Unfortunately, Calibre automatically creates a recycle bin without asking, even if I have not deleted any books from within Calibre. This is becoming a REALLY big headache. Is it possible to set Calibre to delete instead of recycle or some other workaround?

kovidgoyal · 09-09-2011, 04:53 AM

Not without editing the source code.

09-09-2011, 01:38 AM	#1
zentiment Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	How to stop Calibre from creating a Recycle Bin? I keep my Calibre library on an external USB hard drive. Ten percent of my drive is a whopping 200 Gigabytes, so I have changed my settings in Windows Explorer to manage bins on each drive separately and turn off the recycle bin on that drive. I just make sure I really want to delete anything from that drive before I do so. Unfortunately, Calibre automatically creates a recycle bin without asking, even if I have not deleted any books from within Calibre. This is becoming a REALLY big headache. Is it possible to set Calibre to delete instead of recycle or some other workaround?

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09-09-2011, 04:53 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,866 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not without editing the source code.

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