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Originally Posted by davidfor
That doesn't sound right. The cover images should be generated unless there really is no space for them. I'm sure I did some experiments on this in the past and there were no issues with this. But, there might be a problem if the database is larger than the free space. I don't remember if I tested that.
But, I do remember testing what happens with firmware updates when there wasn't much space. I tracked down some posts about it in the 3.17.3 patching thread.
If there is less than 100MB of space, then it should refuse to download the firmware and put up a message to clear space. If there is more than 100MB, it downloads the package and then checks if there is enough space to unpack it. If there isn't, it should display a message about this and remove the package. If there is enough space, it unpacks the package and removes it. Then starts the install process.
The blank OK message is probably supposed to be the second message above. I just downloaded it, and the update package is 100.9MB. And needs the same to unpack. So, a little more than 200MB free is needed. I wonder if the problem was that you had just over 100MB free, but not actually enough to download the file. That error might not have been handled correctly.
And on a side note, those sizes explain why the mark 7 update package was created when it was. The mark 6 package would have been to big if the version 2 devices were included.
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it wasn't me who tried updating the Mini. i was replying to post 44 who had tried with only limited space available without success so deleted some books and had about 200MB free and tried again and the second attempt was successful.
i was sharing my own experience of problems being caused by having limited space, in my case anything less than 100MB any book/books i put on any of my ereaders either my original Aura, Mini, or Touch all running firmware 3.16.0
the book/books will work fine but the cover/covers will be blank as i said in my previous post.
i do remember discussing this with you at the time of 3.16.0 being the current firmware, along with being able to have 2 identical external SD cards with the same books on and only having to put 1 of them in to process the books, rather than it processing the books twice for both cards. you may or may not recall bearing in mind how long ago it was.
best wishes koboy
