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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. |
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Restore Recently deleted is on the Delete Icon MENU
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I'm using Windows 11 for my calibre libraries. When the Restore recently deleted was first added, I copied 2500 ebooks to a new library and then deleted all but one of them. Recovering the deleted books from the .caltrash folder took about 3 minutes (Remove books => Restore recently deleted => select all books on the Books tab => Restore selected. Beat the heck of out of copying files from the Recycle Bin to a desktop folder, adding books from there and then redoing the metadata.
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I rather like the new calibre trash. It makes restoring your mistaken eBooks very easy. I have mine set to auto-delete after 2-weeks.
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