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Originally Posted by Ross Smith
How on earth was anyone supposed to know to do that? The instructions say nothing about force quitting anything.
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Actually, there's a pop-up in Marvin when you restore that tells you the following:
"Please force-quit Marvin and restart to restore the backup."
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Originally Posted by Ross Smith
So I tried rebooting the iPad just now, because I was worried that the backup might still be sitting around waiting to be restored, and I might end up with duplicate books or something.
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Well, rebooting is something different (force-quitting is double-clicking the home button and swiping the app away from the screen). Nevertheless, rebooting works, too, as I just verified.
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It turned out to be even worse: the phantom backup was restored and my existing library was thrown away without so much as an "are you sure?", so all the books I had loaded since installing the new version vanished into thin air and I had to reload them from Calibre.
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Sorry to hear that but that's what restoring does - it replaces everything with your backup. There's no such thing as a "phantom backup" but things can go wrong, of course. Having used Marvin's backup & restore process extensively, though, I don't think the problem is within Marvin.
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Originally Posted by Ross Smith
Let's just say I'm not going to be recommending Marvin to anybody.
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Because a migration went wrong? A migration that's not likely to occur again in the forseeable future? A migration failure that can be fixed by just reloading your books? Oh, well...