[Cootey]

Sounds defective to me. I’ve not had this happen to my Elipsa notebooks. You should give Kobo CS a call.

In the meantime, here’s what I do to prevent Elipsa crashes (of which I have more than my fair share) from corrupting or losing my notebooks.

1) Plug your Elipsa into your computer, and select computer connectivity on the Elipsa.
2) Open the mounted Kobo drive.
3) Look for .nebo files. These are your notebooks.
4) Drag your .nebo files into a folder/directory on your computer.
5) Do this often.

Unlike the built in exporting options, you can drag these notebook files back to your Kobo in the event you have to factory reset and be back up and running right where you left off. The problem here is that while Kobo backs up annotations to the cloud, they don’t backup notebooks. It’s a serious shortcoming IMO.

Lastly, you might want to download the Nebo journaling app and open your corrupt notebooks into that software. The Nebo app is more robust than the barebones Nebo support on the Elipsa. I can’t guarantee anything, but it’s worth a shot to see if you can salvage something.