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Old 10-25-2014, 08:44 AM   #685
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Originally Posted by melovesflying View Post
Is that the store/restore bookmark option you are referring to? Does it basically restore the last good backup made by Calibre? I thought that option literally meant restoring only the reading positions of the books and no other data, like the Reading Stats, so I didn't bother trying it out.
You are correct in what you thought the store/restore bookmark option does. But, it can be used as a backup method if you are not worried about the reading stats or bookmarks. And, as I said, that is why I created it. It was only after I started working on the function that with a few changes, it could store the book status in a useful way.

My recover from a factory reset method is:

- Do the setup
- Connect to calibre
- Send all books that had not been read or are in progress
- Disconnect and let the device process the books
- Connect to calibre
- Restore reading position for all the books on the device
- Disconnect and start reading

I take a factory reset as a sign I should remove some books from the device.

If something happens to corrupt the database, then I restore the last good backup. And restore the reading position for books that have been read since then.

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Restoring from the last good backup actually did me good as I was able to change my device's affiliate and finally get version 3.8 (I had RakutenBooks as my original affiliate) and get back around 200mb of space, which is a surprise because my Aura had the same amount of books before and after I did it.
Good that it worked. The affiliate is independent of the database, so it could have been changed at any time. I don't know where the space came from, unless the device cleaned up something when reprocessing any books that didn't match the database. But, if the backup was recent, there shouldn't have been many of these.
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