Is occasional database corruption to be expected?
I have refurbished Clara HD, having switched a month or so ago from a Kindle PW. I put about 1400 Calibre sideloaded Kepubs on it, taking my time so as to avoid issues. It went fine.
A few weeks later I plugged in the Clara and got the windows "needs to be scanned and fixed" message. I let it scan, and was told there were no errors. However, after copying over a few books from Calibre, I received the message that Calibre could not communicate with the device. Kobo Utilities told me that the database was corrupt. Fortunately, I had a back-up and was quickly up and running.
The problem was that I lost reading progress along the way, which is not too big a deal. But I also lost highlights, which is a bigger deal.
I don't know what caused the corruption so I don't know how to prevent it, and I would like to avoid losing annotations. I suppose I could back-up everyday, but I thought that would put too much wear and tear on the USB port.
How do I minimize the risk of corruption?
Last edited by Desertway; 05-11-2022 at 04:36 PM.
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