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Glaurung-quena · 02-18-2012, 12:34 PM

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

1. The stanzabookrestore.jar app does not work for me -- same problem reported by the Risky Thinking Blogger - it throws an error that it can't find the backup directory on my XP machine, and no, I don't have a vista or 7 machine to try it on.

2. The edited version of the app posted by the Risky Thinking blogger doesn't work for me either, and I don't know why.

3. OK, so we have to do this the old fashioned way. Using Macroplant.com's Phone Disk I was able to find the stanza app directory on the Ipad. (User\applications and then go through the GUIDs - ie, long random letter-number folder names - until you find the one with a subfolder named Stanza.app). Using google, I found someone talking about how Stanza likes to rename your books to a number without a file extension.

So, Inside the stanza app folder, we have Documents, which contains a few .epub files with sensible names, but nowhere near all my books. But there's also a hidden folder, Documents\.stanza\library which contains ten numbered subfolders. Each subfolder contains, in addition to some other stuff, many files with numbers for names and no extension. I copied a couple off, gave them an .epub extension, and loaded them in my epub reader to check - yep, these are my books.

So I copied them to an empty folder on my hard drive (sort by type and select all with no type listed, then wait a LOONG time for Phone Disk to sluggishly do its work), then opened a command shell, CD'd to the folder and typed "ren *.* *.epub". And now I have a bunch of cryptically named book files that I can drag and drop into Calibre.

I'm going to edit the first post to include my solution in a little bit.

02-18-2012, 12:34 PM	#13
Glaurung-quena Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Toronto Device: ipad	Thanks for the advice, everyone. 1. The stanzabookrestore.jar app does not work for me -- same problem reported by the Risky Thinking Blogger - it throws an error that it can't find the backup directory on my XP machine, and no, I don't have a vista or 7 machine to try it on. 2. The edited version of the app posted by the Risky Thinking blogger doesn't work for me either, and I don't know why. 3. OK, so we have to do this the old fashioned way. Using Macroplant.com's Phone Disk I was able to find the stanza app directory on the Ipad. (User\applications and then go through the GUIDs - ie, long random letter-number folder names - until you find the one with a subfolder named Stanza.app). Using google, I found someone talking about how Stanza likes to rename your books to a number without a file extension. So, Inside the stanza app folder, we have Documents, which contains a few .epub files with sensible names, but nowhere near all my books. But there's also a hidden folder, Documents\.stanza\library which contains ten numbered subfolders. Each subfolder contains, in addition to some other stuff, many files with numbers for names and no extension. I copied a couple off, gave them an .epub extension, and loaded them in my epub reader to check - yep, these are my books. So I copied them to an empty folder on my hard drive (sort by type and select all with no type listed, then wait a LOONG time for Phone Disk to sluggishly do its work), then opened a command shell, CD'd to the folder and typed "ren . *.epub". And now I have a bunch of cryptically named book files that I can drag and drop into Calibre. I'm going to edit the first post to include my solution in a little bit.