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Nick Payne · 01-15-2018, 05:40 PM

Aura HD with current 4.7.10413 firmware. When I go to "My Books" this morning (sort order is set to Recent), there two entries on the first page, both with the title "Id" and author "Unknown Author", and both plain txt files 37 bytes in size. When I have a look at either of them, they both just contain a single GUID/UUID (see http://guid.one/guid for an explanation). I have no idea where these came from - I only ever sideload books using Calibre, and I don't use the Kobo desktop application at all.

When I view details for either of them, it shows:

Publisher: (1/13/18)
Language: English
File Size: 37 B
File Format: txt

When I attach the Kobo to my PC and mount the internal memory and SD card as drives, I can see that these two "books" correspond to two files named Id.txt in the root folder of both drives - the contents of each file are the same GUID as I see if I open the file as a book on the Kobo.

Any idea how these appeared and whether I can safely delete them?

01-15-2018, 05:40 PM	#1
Nick Payne Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 39898 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Canberra, Australia Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kobo Libra H2O	Two strange GUID txt files have appeared on my Kobo Aura HD with current 4.7.10413 firmware. When I go to "My Books" this morning (sort order is set to Recent), there two entries on the first page, both with the title "Id" and author "Unknown Author", and both plain txt files 37 bytes in size. When I have a look at either of them, they both just contain a single GUID/UUID (see http://guid.one/guid for an explanation). I have no idea where these came from - I only ever sideload books using Calibre, and I don't use the Kobo desktop application at all. When I view details for either of them, it shows: Publisher: (1/13/18) Language: English File Size: 37 B File Format: txt When I attach the Kobo to my PC and mount the internal memory and SD card as drives, I can see that these two "books" correspond to two files named Id.txt in the root folder of both drives - the contents of each file are the same GUID as I see if I open the file as a book on the Kobo. Any idea how these appeared and whether I can safely delete them?