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Originally Posted by rogerinnyc
You're right, but I'd rather do a totally clean set up -- i.e., redo my settings and let the thumbnail covers regenerate. So I just copy out the books and then recopy them in. If I'm bothering to do a factory reset, I kind of prefer (even if not necessary) to do everything from scratch (except for the books). (And it's not very time-consuming (IMHO).)
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There is maybe some misunderstanding about a firmware upgrade,downgrade or factory reset.
The firmware and the operating system is placed on another part of the internal storage where we can't touch it without doing some tricks.
The part where the operating system exist and work, is not in the directory's that you copy or can see, but placed somewhere else.
So if you copy all content and all subdirectory's back, you don't copy or replace the firmware or operating system.
While it does depends on the files for settings that you do copy, you don't replace things into the firmware or operating system back.
So it doesn't work the same way as a normal pc works, destroying the windows directory or copy the old windows directory back after an upgrade WILL destroy your system.
The system of the e-reader isn't placed on any of the directory's you copy, it is on another partition where you can't normally touch it.
The patches are "injected" into this operating system, the normal part that we can access doesn't contain anything of the internal operating system. ( as in windows terms, the operating system is on drive C,the part we copy and restore is on drive D )
So even with a total new installed system,returned to default,you can copy the visible part back.
The only problem can occur when the firmware does no longer support the previous format of the database,but even then the chances are very big that it converts it because that is the system doing when upgrading to.. even the betatesters I know do make a copy of the "kobo ereader drive" and restore that..