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Originally Posted by CazMar
In Australia our desktop software comes from Borders Australia due to restrictive rules about what books can be purchased from overseas. It probably works just like the Kobo software in USA and Canada. Today when I checked there was a "software update" which I thought was the Kobo firmware update (this is normally where the firmware updates come from). However it turned out to be just a desktop software update BUT after letting the software update and synching the Kobo it now can't access the books on my SD card unless I delete and reload via Calibre. Calibre can see them. They are all public domain books and backed up so nothing lost, but it is just annoying to have to go through this process (and not the first time!). The firmware is still 1.4, hopefully the "real" update will arrive in the next few days. I am not going to reload all the books just in case this happens again after the firmware update!
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OK, well for starters, the new firmware is for
http://www.kobobooks.com users only. The partners like Borders, Whitcoulls, etc. will be releasing their updates shortly. None of this thread applies to you yet.
As you discovered, the firmware on your kobo is unchanged so any problem with your SD card must have been pre-existing. The desktop software knows nothing about SD cards. Ever. I'd guess either your SD card is corrupt (do you have another device that can read SD cards to verify?) or somehow you've scrambled the database on the kobo. If the latter, there's a sticky with instructions for restoring a clean 1.4 database
here.