Thread: Kobo glo hd epub stays unread
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Old 03-07-2016, 08:53 PM   #14
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Vinz3nt View Post
I'll use the safe eject function from Calibre to be on the safe side.
There is indeed a safe ejection option in the system tray in windows 10 but it's not working. Always unable to eject the kobo safely.
I tried it about 10 times with calibre last night and it's still functioning perfectly.
Seems to be a bug to me as I've never experienced this with a usb drive. Not even with windows 2000 where I never used the safe ejection option.
When I think back it all started when I installed and started the kobo desktop tool. I removed it as it doesn't have any function for me at all.
The Kobo devices aren't really just a USB drive. They are run Linux and then present one of the three partitions on the internal memory to the computer as a drive. That works well, but it is more complicated than a standard USB memory stick and hence there are more things that could go wrong. And there have been some very strange interactions between the Kobo devices and different OSes.

And if you have never had a corrupted file or file system on a USB stick after just pulling it of your PC, then you are lucky. I definitely have. I would say it is happens less now than before, but it still happens. It is timing. If the OS has finished writing to the stick, flushed any caches and closed the file system, all will be OK. But, if it is the middle of writing, then there probably will be problems.
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