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arspr · 01-03-2014, 01:59 PM

A suggestion born from real serious trouble because of my mistakes and Kobo being quite "weak". But it can be really useful against undesired critical mistakes.

What I suggest is adding an option to force an automatic Check Book, or actually the critical tests of it, when saving is launched. If any failure is detected, the user would be told and asked for confirmation about really continuing with the saving process.

It can save a lot of headaches if the users make serious mistakes while editing. Of course you can always perform a manual check every time you are going to save... but at least me, I'm not so careful or I am fully sure I have made just small, little , irrelevant changes...

My real problem has been (I think) that a missing </p> plus "kepubization" of the epub through jgoguen's plugin has created a kepub.epub which has corrupted the internal database of my Aura HD twice, (yes, incredible but real), forcing me to make a device reset each time. A process, I can assure you, which is a whole PITA.

Even without this secondary crazy effect, I would have been really grateful about not having lost the original error-free version of my epub. So, is it a feasible enhancement?

01-03-2014, 01:59 PM	#1
arspr Dead account. Bye Posts: 587 Karma: 668244 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: none	Safe save feature enhancement? A suggestion born from real serious trouble because of my mistakes and Kobo being quite "weak". But it can be really useful against undesired critical mistakes. What I suggest is adding an option to force an automatic Check Book, or actually the *critical tests* of it, when saving is launched. If any failure is detected, the user would be told and asked for confirmation about really continuing with the saving process. It can save a lot of headaches if the users make serious mistakes while editing. Of course you can always perform a manual check every time you are going to save... but at least me, I'm not so careful or I am fully *sure* I have made just small, little , irrelevant changes... My real problem has been (I think) that a missing </p> plus "kepubization" of the epub through jgoguen's plugin has created a kepub.epub which *has corrupted* the internal database of my Aura HD twice, (yes, incredible but real), forcing me to make a device reset each time. A process, I can assure you, which is a whole PITA. Even without this secondary crazy effect, I would have been really grateful about not having lost the original error-free version of my epub. So, is it a feasible enhancement?