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Originally Posted by davidrichards27
Hi Guys!
I have had my Libra2 for a couple of years now and suffice to say I have 'lots' (a few thousand)of books, many, many sideloaded and organised into lots of collections.
I am going to be upgrading to a Libra Colrour soon and I am wondering if there is a simple way to just mirror my existing collections straight onto the new reader without having to replicate every collection manually?
Any ideas gratefully received
Thanks a lot
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It’s not easy. Kobo has very poor sideloading sync support. If all you did was borrow library books through Overdrive or purchased directly from Kobo, then this is as simple as logging into your new device and authorizing the different services. But you had to go and sideload thousands of books and group them in collections…just like a lot of us. LOL
In the past, you could make a backup of your Kobo (I use a terminal shell in macOS and type “cp -rv /Volumes/KOBOeReader/* (destination)”) then reverse the paths and restore the backup onto the new device.
However, Kobo has changed a few things with the firmware on the new Colour devices. I ran into problems when I copied my old Clara2E backup onto my new Libra Colour (KLC).
If you just dropped your books onto the mounted Kobo drive when sideloading, just open up your Kobo drive and move all those sideloaded books into a backup directory. Then you can drop them back into the KLC. Or if you use Calibre, you could give all the books a unique tag to make copying them over to the new device easy.
Backup your conf (configuration) files in /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo>Kobo. Those can be copied back to your new device. Backup custom-dict, too, if you have added any.
The problem is the collections. Kobo may restore your collections on the new device (assuming you sync with Kobo occasionally), but they’ll be empty. Kobo doesn’t restore sideloaded books or remember where you so carefully placed them.
You have two options:
1) Manually restore them. I keep a backup of my sideloaded books on my Mac and restore them one collection at a time. It’s time consuming, but I have so much on my plate, I haven’t taken time to learn how to…
2) Use Calibre to organize your collections. Then it can restore them onto the KLC for you. There are more than a few discussions about this very process in the forum.
Every time I think “yeah, I should learn to do that,” I am under deadline, like today. So I‘ll get stuck doing it manually again the next time I have to restore my Kobo. 🙄