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Old 10-22-2021, 04:39 PM   #5
rcentros
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Originally Posted by Bitter Almonds View Post
But I only have the one laptop running Windows 10. The Kobo Mini is stuck in that black screen to download Kobo Desktop or stuck looking for updates in the WiFi. I can't get out of the initial set-up. I'd even be fine if I could just access the internal storage to transfer e-books and e-manga, but it doesn't register in the laptop from any of its USB ports (it only charges).
"Set up on WiFi" or "use Kobo Desktop" were my two choices as well. I found that, when I chose the Desktop option I could see the Kobo in my file manager when I enabled show hidden files. You would have to tell Windows to show hidden files. If the Mini says "Connected" you should be good — this is exactly what mine showed in Linux (unfortunately I don't know enough about Windows to help a lot with it, but I think there is an option to show hidden files).

Does the Kobo Desktop see the Kobo Mini? Mine did — it just never would complete the update. That's why I went with the manual update route.

Hopefully someone has done what I did but used Windows instead. Hopefully they can be of more help with the Windows specifics. The fact that the Kobo Mini says "connected" is a good sign. Somehow you should be able to see it in Windows' File Manager (or whatever it's called now).
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