Thanks again, chaley. This now brings my sad tale around in a full circle, back to your original advice to end the agony over the USB cable failure, to simply re-set the Fire to factory defaults, and re-install everything. My other messages on other MobileRead forums have tried to ascertain whether or not I really do have full backups, not of books, but of apps, settings and everything else on the Fire, apart from the books.
It appears that previous 'Manual Backup' option has disappeared from the new Version 5 Fire OS, which leaves me having to depend on Amazon to mysteriously 'once a day' back up my Fire. No Fire experts have so far been able to give me a definitive answer about this, so I've been 'holding fire' (pardon the pun) until I have enough confidence to re-set. Otherwise, I picture myself spending many happy hours re-installing things and struggling to get my Fire back to its usual state.
I guess what I really hoped to hear from someone was, 'Yes, this happened to me too! If you do A and then B, you'll fix it.' But so far I've only had one helpful reply, confirming that the 'Manual Backup' option is gone from Fire.
I take your point that my Fire is acting 'squirrelly' (as we used to say) and needs a reboot.
I really do appreciate your patience in continuing to get back to me on this rather sad story . . .
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Originally Posted by chaley
Personally, I would shut down calibre then start over by factory-resetting the device. There is enough strange and inexplicable stuff going on that I have no confidence that the device is in good shape. Then try the cabled connection, since that is what you are used to. If that works, well and good. If it doesn't then (perhaps reset again and) try CC.
If you go this route, be sure that you have off-device copies of everything on the device that you care about. Also be sure that you have usernames and passwords for all the "accounts" used on the device.
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