Thread: Glo Problem to rebuild a Kobo database
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Old 11-21-2018, 08:25 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by bernard.ryefield View Post
See my answer to frostschutz above
Did you check the firmware version on the device afterwards? If it didn't go back to an older one, then the factory reset probably didn't actually happen. A failing SD card is the most likely reason for that.
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You are quite right, as usual.
The first thing I noticed was a book sent to the device wasn't green checked on Calibre on a second (USB) connection. The book was on the device in a appropriate directory. I deleted manually this book on the device (probably my mistake) and sent another book with the same effect.

I then suspected one particular book I had sent previously and deleted it from the device with Calibre. I changed its authors name (leaving a dot out) and resent it. But on the following reconnections, Calibre showed the book on the SD Card as FILE MISSING:<old name of the book>.I tried to delete it with Calibre (and refreshed the metadata) to no avail. I tried to harmonize it with the library with the same end result. In between I tried different backups of the database, always showing at the end the FILE MISSING:<> message.
Basically I can add book with Calibre but they don't show up on the device. I can't mark any book as "read". I hope I don't forget anything, but I'm on this problem for a few days now and so much happened I wouldn't be surprised I missed something.
All that suggests a corrupt database and the solution is restoring a database backup or logging out. If that doesn't work, then a factory reset should fix it. The failure of these steps says something else is wrong, and the only suggestions I have is to restore an image to the internals SD card, but, I would really suggest replacing the card.
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