Too Easy to delete a book's content in Book Module?

Is anyone else finding it too easy to delete -- by accident -- the content or layouts of a book you have been working on in the Book Module? It has happened to me once and I am now very unsure of how to keep it from happening again. I have begun making copies of the book as I progress -- which can be useful for other purposes, but doesn't answer the question of if there might be a better way for the book module to work in this respect.
Don't get me wrong -- I love the book module already and it is worth the price of the upgrade just for that. But I want it to be perfect!
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I suspect it said all the folders would be recreated, not the files. Once you have imported, you must delete in RoboHelp in the same way as any other topic. Otherwise how does the database it maintains know what you are doing?
If the book is going to change again, maybe linking would be a better option.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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This is just a warning to everyone else since it happened to me this morning. I accidentally deleted my entire iPhoto library because my roommate stupidly placed the icon "iPhoto Library" into the trashcan, and this morning I emptied the trashcan.
I don't know why Apple made the entire photo library into just one icon. That icon is so precious, if you know how to do it, make it impossible to delete it! It is WAY too easy to delete your collection of photos because of this oversimplification in the new iPhoto 08 "upgrade." I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.
Too bad I dont have time machine/Leopard right now...

Sorry for your troubles, but f your room mate is capable of putting the v7 library in the trash, then he/she is as capable of putting an ordinary folder in the trash. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves. It's hard to legislate for room mates.
Now you need a utilit like File Salvage and an external HD to recover the files to.
Regards
TD

Too easy to delete Masters by accident?

Hello:
I am sorry if this ultra novice question has been asked and answered numerous times but I couldn't find the answer...
Is the following true:
In Aperture we never see Masters, only versions. One version is automatically created when we import the file.
If we delete the last version the Master is also deleted -- WITHOUT ANY WARNING!
There is no easy way to discover how many versions of a Master are left.
If my understanding is true, then it is astonishingly easy to accidentally delete a Master. That is lunacy! Please tell me that I am wrong!
Thanks,
Jeff Stulin

This issue has been discussed here in the past, in fact I had a user tip for this back when user tips were displayed (see Deleting version also deleted the master)
So basically what you are seeing is how Aperture works, as this has been brought to the attention of Apple a number of times in the past they either don't think it's a problem or else that is how Aperture is designed.
As for your item 3 all versions of a master will be in the project that contains the master so seeing if a master has multiple versions isn't a major problem. If you allow Aperture to name your versions then each new version will have Version x attached to the image.
As a last resort each version having the same master will also of course have the same file name, so you could do a search or smart album on that.
Of course as Corky wrote the master first goes into the Aperture trash and from there to the system trash so it takes a lot of work on you're part to really delete the master off the system.
On minor correction to what Corky wrote:
Note - if you deleted a version that is not deleting a Master file, then there won't be any file moved to the Finder trash.
This is not correct. The version you delete will show up in the trash even if there are multiple versions of a master
regards

Is it too easy to delete images?

I appreciate the simplicity of being able to use CMD+DELETE to delete an image. But I wish Aperture offered the option of throwing up a warning window before actually moving images to the trash. I don't get any sort of warning when deleting images -- or even entire projects. They just pop straight to the trash.
I use a managed library, so perhaps folks with referenced images are seeing some sort of dialogue box. It also seems odd that the text that shows up in the right click menu for this is "Delete Version" -- even when I'm deleting a master that has no versions.
I know these files only go to Aperture's trash, which is a nice stopgap against accidentally removing something forever with a single click. Still, if anyone knows of a preference somewhere that would throw up a warning box when trying to delete a group of images or a project, please let me know.

I agree that the Aperture team needs to more precisely define "Master" and "Version". As I conceive of it, you never see a Master file. That's why when you copy a newly imported image, the copy is labeled "Version 2" (and not "Version 1"). Version 1 already exists, because every Master must have at least one Version.
The problem is that when you delete "Version 1", you are also deleting (and must, or you would have an image file with no image) the Master.
I don't know that Ap3 handles this differently for managed v. referenced files. Here is the dialog I get when I delete Version 1 of a referenced file. This is the only indication I get that deleting this file will also delete the Master.
The wording of this dialog is not as clear as it should be.
I would like to see the Aperture team specifically separate "Master (file)" from "Version 1 (image in Aperture)". I imagine a replacement dialog for the one above saying something like:
+"This is the only remaining Version of the Master (file) in your Library. Moving this Version to the Trash will move the Master (file) to the Trash as well."+
At least, that is how it looks from my POV as a user.

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3000 old emails, some as far back as 2009, came along for the ride when I transferred aol address book to imac address book. Can't find the magic key to permanently delete them. Ideas on procedures?

I'd try deleting 50 at a time - 3000 is a stretch.
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Address Book duplicated my contacts two or three times, and it also created around 60,000 empty contacts. I have been able to clean the Entourage contacts, which only suffered from duplication but not from new empty entries.
I tried to delete the Address Book duplicate and empty entries. The easy way out, I thought, was to Select All and delete. It does not work. Given I have ended with around 80,000 contacts, after I Select All, and try to delete, the program hangs, and I have to Force Quit the Address Book application.
I tried to locate the Address Book file where contacts are stored, but I have not found an obvious name that would point to it, nor have I read anything about such file in the different discussion forums. So no success on this.
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Good morning Old Toad.
I did as you suggested:
1) Booted from install CD.
2) Ran Disk Utilities on internal hard drive--no repairs necessary. For good measure, did the same thing on external drive. Also no repairs necessary.
3) Checked software update--no updates found. About this Mac said I was already running 10.4.7. For good measure, I downloaded the latest and installed it. Since it let me run the install, I'm not sure if I installed something new or reinstalled what I already had.
4) I rebooted from CD, ran disk utilities, ran repair disk--no repairs necessary. Repaired permissions and a lot of permissions repaired.
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00102A08): jnl: transaction too big (1587712 >= 1572352 bytes, bufsize 8192, tr 0x29f1fb0 bp 0x2801de40)
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I'm trying to delete the files because:
A) They already take .5 Gb.
B) I can't get rid of them ever. If I move the problem files to a different folder, I can only do one successful drag-and-drop backup to the external drive until the "new" thumb segments become unerasable just like the previous versions and crash the system.
C) I can't even "just" drag and drop every file/folder except the thumbs, because that ends up crashing the system as well. So I have to drag and drop every file/folder in the iPhoto hierarchy individually. Which makes me less inclined to backup, which defeats the purpose of a backup.
D) After the iPhoto fiasco I'm just crabby about all the Apple screw-ups I'm experiencing and I want to get them fixed.
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I sync with an iPhone but not mobile me.
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