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Old 03-11-2017, 05:58 PM   #329
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Originally Posted by Rosalene View Post
Thanks so much for answering.

The one bug - or at least on my Aura HD - that seems partially fixed by replacing the config 3.17 file with the 4.3 config in the 3.17 fw - a bug that really annoyed me, is as follows. With the 3.17 config file in the 3.17 build whenever I created a Collection, and then starting with Manage Collection / Add Books tried to order my large book collection by Author, that order did not come up. The only order available was 'Recent'. By adding the later config file the books now reorder appropriately even although the menu name remains 'Recent' remains.

I used Notepad to put in the new nightmode code. Actually it did work - for a while. Even so the nightmode reversed back to 'daymode' after a few pages. There was also no way to toggle it.

I do have the latest version of Calibre - but it does not work to load books with my hybrid 3.17 fw / 4.3 config file setup. As is said earlier, I can live with that temporarily. That is 'temporarily' until a more sophisticated 'toggleable' nightmode patch comes out for the 4.3.
Because it has started a discussion, can I check what you did and are running?

You upgraded to a 4.3.x and decided you didn't like it. You took a copy of the .kobo directory. Then you did a factory reset and went to 3.17. The you replaced the 3.17 .kobo directory with the 4.3.x .kobo directory.

Hence you are running 3.17, but with a database as some other files that came from a 4.3.x build.

That will work, but only because Kobo have made sure the database is backwardly compatible. And it is completely safe. But, it DOES NOT fix any bugs. There is absolutely no Kobo code in the .kobo directory, only data.

The "bug" you say is fixed, is not a bug. It is a lack in the available sorts in different places in the interface. The fix from the 4.3.x config file is because you used recent sorting while using 4.3.x and it added a line to the config file as log as you don't change the sorting, nothing will change.

For the nightmode, there is already a version that will work with the way you want it to with the 4.3.x firmware. It was released in time for it to be needed.

As to calibre, if it isn't sending books to the device, then there is a problem. But, until you report the problem properly (any errors, what actually happens, what you think should happen), nothing can be done about it. Calibre 2.81 works with ALL released versions of the Kobo firmware on all available Kobo ereaders. There could be a bug, but it is more likely there is a problem with your configuration, or device.
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