Thread: Mac & PC won't recognize Kobo
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Old 10-29-2018, 07:33 PM   #78
davidfor
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Originally Posted by arjanknulst View Post
I faced the same issue with connecting Kobo Aura H20 2 to Macbook as well. It was not shown. After lots of Googling I found a solution that worked for me.

1. Download and install the free program Calibre (for those who don't know it: it is a free book management program).
2. In Calibre main menu, go to Preferences >> Get plugins to extent Calibre.
3. Search for 'Kobo' and install any Kobo related plugin.
4. There will be a new button in the menu stating 'Kobo Utilities'. Using the dropdown arrow next to this button choose 'Driver' from the menu and select 'Switch between main and extended driver'

Restart your macbook, after that it worked seamlessly for me!
Kobo is now visible in both Finder as well as Calibre and Adobe Digital Editions.
Are you completely sure of this? Calibre only uses OS resources to access the devices. If the OS cannot see the device, there is no way that calibre will see it. I suppose that there might be something in how calibre looks for the device that triggers it appearing in Finder, but that would be news to me. And I'm sure if that is the case, there will be an option somewhere in the Mac to do the same thing without calibre.

And steps 3 and 4 are problematic. Nothing in the extra Kobo related plugins will help in detecting a Kobo device. Changing to the KoboTouchExtended driver will not help. It subclasses the built-in KoboTouch driver. And it has no extra code for detecting devices. It relies completely on the code in the KoboTouch driver to do this. If the OS or calibre have trouble seeing the device, then installing the other Kobo-related plugins is not going to help and is only going to confuse the issue.

Now, don't get me wrong, the plugins you are talking about are good, very useful and I highly recommend them to anyone who needs them. But that's the thing: "needs them". No-one should install any plugins that they don't need or understand the purpose of. The KoboTouchExtended driver is only useful to people who want to send books as kepubs but not store them in calibre. Telling someone to install it that doesn't want this, or understand this, is not a good idea. And has led to plenty of questions here when something unexpectedly changed on the device. Opposite of this, all the plugins with "kepub" in their names are only needed if the user actually intends to keep kepubs in their calibre library.
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