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edelcorrallira · 03-07-2013, 10:52 AM

Sorry for the necro, but this solution was spot on

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That said I use a Sony PSR 600, with the old firmware and had to do an additional step. So I figured it was best to register and share...

First of all I hadn't erased my book, it was still in my device. Its just that for some reason the Sony ereader software periodically crashes and erases my highlights (and I'm currently at training in work, so that's not a good thing). What I did was simply to highlight another bit of text in your device so it performs whatever internal validations it requires, then insert your old tags before your newly created tags as mentioned above.

If I didn't create new tags it just didn't recognize it for some reason; my guess is that it has to validate it somehow (some hash keys or something).

So again thanks! I'll see if I can restore the rest of my work but at least I got some solid eight hours worth of work back

Hope this helps others as well !!

03-07-2013, 10:52 AM	#7
edelcorrallira Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Sony PSR 600	An additional step that made it work for me Sorry for the necro, but this solution was spot on. That said I use a Sony PSR 600, with the old firmware and had to do an additional step. So I figured it was best to register and share... First of all I hadn't erased my book, it was still in my device. Its just that for some reason the Sony ereader software periodically crashes and erases my highlights (and I'm currently at training in work, so that's not a good thing). What I did was simply to highlight another bit of text in your device so it performs whatever internal validations it requires, then insert your old tags before your newly created tags as mentioned above. If I didn't create new tags it just didn't recognize it for some reason; my guess is that it has to validate it somehow (some hash keys or something). So again thanks! I'll see if I can restore the rest of my work but at least I got some solid eight hours worth of work back Hope this helps others as well !!