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Originally Posted by davidfor
That's not a mistake I'd ever make. Again.  |
Aha
glad to know I'm not the only one.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
That looks good. It should work and will safe. I think the only thing I would do is to take a full copy of the books partition before starting. That way, if something goes wrong, you can restore this and start again. I do this frequently with some of the testing I do.
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Sorry for my abrupt disappearance: I got covid and was ill for a few weeks, then I had to catch up on work... this got shoved to the very end of the To Do list. But, I FINALLY got around to it just today. I wish I had done it before I got sick because in the meantime something broke further and the reading positions were not updated after December so I did lose a bit of information, but I was able to keep almost all of my reading positions, my bookmarks and annotations, my word list... and exporting / reimporting the databases went perfectly. Thanks so much for reminding me to copy the entire books partition, I would have lost some things I care about otherwise (the word list!).
I amended the steps in my previous post as a memo to myself and in case anyone else ever needs to do this, hopefully I didn't forget anything.
I do have a question: the reimported annotations are not encoded correctly, so accented letters are displayed as gibberish (in the annotations on the device; in the csv file the text is correct), is there any way to fix that? I have the saved database so if I need to re-export in a different encoding (I used UTF-8) I can do that (
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Oh, I have a second question: are the reading positions saved in a database that I could import to get the ones from the past 2 months?
Most of all I wand to say THANK YOU for your so patient help! Without your explanations, and also without your plugin, I would never have been able to do this.
