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Old 09-04-2018, 08:06 PM   #545
davidfor
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Originally Posted by danhof View Post
Hello David,

Thank you so much for providing this plugin.

I have checked it with my Tolino Vision 4 HD and it works fine. However, I assume that there are different locations where Notes are stored on the device. There is the file notes.txt where notes are included as soon as they are created. But if you change or delete these notes later, these changes are not reflected in this file. Thererefore, the 'actual' notes must be saved at a different location.

Do you happen to know where these data are stored and do you see any chance to fetch these "original" notes as well?
All that is correct. The "notes.txt" file is effectively a log of annotations. It isn't used when you look at the annotations while reading on the device. Those are somewhere else. I can't see any likely files when the device is connected, so I assume they are on a partition that isn't made available to the PC. That makes them inaccessible and impossible to use.

There are instructions for rooting the tolino devices. I assume that will make more of the filesystem available. Apart from a little curiosity about what is hidden, and how various pieces of information are stored, I'm not very interested in doing this.

At this point, this is the only way to get any sort of annotations from the device. It's better than nothing, but I'm not sure how much.
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