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Originally Posted by Blue2u
My ADE is not registered.
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So to keep a 'stripped' copy I just save the epub version from my actual Calibre folder and not the epub from the ADE folder?
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Should I uninstall the ADE version I have and start fresh?
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Not yet. Do not touch the ADE you have right now. Not until you are absolutely sure your books are entirely backed up.
The key file is not the ACSM (those are just pointer files that tell the software where to find the book to download, and they eventually expire), but the "Local Adept Key.der" that the tools generate the first time you load and introduce them to your system. You can find this somewhere in your user preferences/settings folder.
(On the Mac, it's in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apprenticealf.dedrm. I'll see if I can find it on Windows on the netbook again.)
As long as you save a copy of your Local Adept Key.der (it's safe to rename it to something different like OldAdobe.der) then in the future you can use to to keep unlocking copies of your old DRMed books by feeding it into the new versions of the tools, in case they come up with something that fixes problems with the old unDRMing stuff.
I would advise saving copies of both your original downloaded books and the un-DRMed ones from Calibre or directly from the tools if using the Python scripts, etc. for exactly that reason.
Once you've checked each and every copy of your non-DRMed books to be sure that they open in a non-DRM ePub reader (you could use the ePubReader plugin for Firefox to check) and you've a copy of the Local Adept Key file, then you can go ahead and create yourself a proper Adobe ID. You won't need to reinstall ADE, you just register properly from within the app when it asks you, IIRC.
This will make your old DRMed books unreadable and un-redownloadable, but you'll be able to link your Kobo and your Sony to the new Adobe ID and get your books onto both devices and re-download any new files from then on and transfer them to wherever you please.
Sorry this seems like such a complicated hassle when you just wanted something that would easily work, but it's really Adobe's fault for setting up situations like this involving peoples' purchased items.