Thread: Impossible synchronisation
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Old 11-07-2013, 06:22 PM   #18
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Gadget Guy View Post
I recently loaded some books to my Kobo via Calibre and the first batch worked great. The next day I tried to load more, but Calibre could not see the Kobo properly. After that - I could power on, but not see any of the books I had loaded onto the device. I did a factory reset and went to set up the reader again and it gets stuck at the beginning (spinner spinning, but that's it).

If I connect to Calibre, I get the following error:
calibre, version 1.9.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

database disk image is malformed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 85, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 480, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 343, in books
DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

Any idea how I can get this thing functional again?
It means the database on the device has become corrupted. From where the error is detected in the code and your listed device, I think you have either the original reader or a WiFi. Unless you have a backup of this, I think the only thing you can do is a factory reset.
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