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Desertway · 05-11-2022, 04:21 PM

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?

05-11-2022, 04:21 PM	#1
Desertway Addict Posts: 337 Karma: 1701842 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kindle Oasis 3	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.