Thread: Aura Keeping annotations when moving .epubs location
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Old 12-27-2017, 07:12 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by MicheleBS View Post
In my Kobo Aura One, I noticed that if I move an .epub across folders, changing its location, Annotations are cancelled.

Is there a way to keep it chained to the file, so that I can find them attacched to the ebook also when in the new location?
Yes, but it's something I don't like doing.

The full path of the book is used as the key in the internal database. Details of the books are stored in the database. This include the reading status and the bookmarks. When a book is renamed, the device sees a missing book and removes nearly all details of the book from the database. Then it imports the book as a new book.

You can intercept this by updating the appropriate database records when you move the books. It isn't to hard, but not something I've bothered doing.

But, as you are talking about epubs, there is an alternative. For epubs in the main memory, as well as the database, the annotations are written to a file. This is done by the Adobe RMSDK that is used by epubs. This is simple as you need to rename the annotations file. But, the file is only read when you open the epub. Until you do this, it will look like the books do not have any annotations.

For this, the annotations file is in the directory "Digitial Editions/Annotations". That contains files with the extension "ANNOT". The name and path to them is the same as where the epub is relative to the root directory of the driver when it is mounted on a PC. You can rename or move the files with no problems.
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