Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 07-07-2013, 11:28 PM   #166
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Ugh; that's kind of ugly. I suppose naive me had assumed that the volume-id / serial # / some unique value would also be stored, allowing one to easily swap between multiple SD cards without the need to re-scan them each time.

So many items seem to have a good initial thought to them, and then some poor implementation choices.
There is an id for the card stored in the ExternalId column in the content table. It is an 8 character hex value and I have no idea where it comes from. I have seen different values in the column. I could match one value to a card, but not the other. I assumed the cleanup when the new card had been inserted failed.

Also, the hex id is in the "Kobo eReader.conf". It's that "90164EF8=true" line. I have seen a couple of these in the file at the same time, but only one of them was used in the database.
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