Thread: Kobo Aura HD - SD Card Problems
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Old 02-28-2016, 07:04 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Chopster View Post
I do think it's a bit of an odd design choice, and highly counterintuitive, that when you put an SD card in the reader creates a clearly labelled koboExtStorage directory. Logically that's where files for the reader should be placed, when in fact it's the one place you *shouldn't* put any ebooks if you want them to be detected. Plus, there was nothing in the manual about that.
As with the main memory, the device scans the the full card looking for books. The places it doesn't are directories whose name starts with a dot and the koboExtStorage directory. The former is because Unix-like systems treat these as hidden or system files and directories. The latter is because the koboExtStorage directory is created by the firmware for it to store things it creates.
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