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Old 03-15-2014, 06:14 AM   #1
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Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE, PocketBook InkPad Color 3
Kobo Reader.conf corrupted?

I just had a problem uploading a book to my Kobo Aura. Calibre 1.27 (the Kobo extended plugin) reports:

Quote:
calibre, version 1.27.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

File contains no section headers.
file: /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf, line: 1
'&\x03O\x0221.1.2.2. Storage Recommendations\n'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 86, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 571, in _upload_books
File "calibre_plugins.kobotouch_extended.device.driver" , line 267, in upload_books
File "lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
File "lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 512, in _read
MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf, line: 1
'&\x03O\x0221.1.2.2. Storage Recommendations\n'
I'm not sure what the file is meant to look like, but it currently starts like this (od -c):

Quote:
0000000 & 003 O 002 2 1 . 1 . 2 . 2 . S t
0000020 o r a g e R e c o m m e n d a
0000040 t i o n s \n 362 % 003 M 002 2 1 . 2 .
0000060 A n n o t a t e d S a m p l
0000100 e D o c u m e n t s 023 \r 036 003 ?
0000120 002 2 1 . 2 . T e s t i n g P
0000140 e r f o r m a n c e \n 363 & 003 O 002
The text looks like the content from one of my books.

Retrying the "send book to device" fails with the same problem, unsurprisingly. Any ideas on how to recover from this?

Last edited by chrisridd; 03-15-2014 at 06:15 AM. Reason: Clarify this is a persistent problem
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