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Originally Posted by Garu
DNSB, thanks for such a quick reply!
That will erase all books, so afterwards I will have to upload everything back, correct? Sign out, sign in, upload everything I need via Calibre and that's it? - is that how it looks (I'll do for first time, so I'm a bit anxious)?
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As far as I recall, the sign out/sign in will not remove any ebooks on the internal storage nor will it change the running firmware version. The ebooks will need to be processed again to be re-entered into the database. The factory reset will wipe everything on the exposed partition and will require reloading any sideloaded books on the internal storage, (in the KA1's case, internal is the only storage) and will revert the firmware to the factory version, (3.20.6894 for my KA1), requiring a firmware update to get back to the current version.
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Originally Posted by Garu
That's a pity. Going forward, is there a way to preserve the stats, so next time database is corrupted (hopefully never) I can keep them?
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Using Calibre and davidfor's Kobo Utilities plugin, you can backup the database and in theory revert to a copy before the corruption. I've never used the restore procedure myself since I think of my ereader as device for reading books so losing the reading stats doesn't bother me.
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Originally Posted by Garu
Yes, that is exactly what I had in mind. Well, that was pretty much everything (apart from factory reset) that I could think of in order to fix it.
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The pinhole reset is like resetting or power cycling your computer and will not repair existing corruption. I've used it when I managed to hang my Kobo so badly that holding the power switch to power it off did not work.
Generally, I'll try a sign out/sign in. If that doesn't fix the issue, I'll try a factory reset. If that doesn't work, if the device has an internal uSD card, time to rewrite the card otherwise hope for a miracle.