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cartman · 06-11-2009, 02:33 PM

I just transferred many books to my sony, sure that no tags/collections would appear. But i had an idea: instead of letting the device index everything after disconnecting from usb, i would just disconnect and reconnect the cable after 2-3seconds. And then i saw that calibre could still read tags from the books that are on the device. That means that the problem occurs when the device indexes the books, and the books are transferred to the device in a way that makes at least calibre able to read the tags it has given to them.
I have taken a copy of cache.xml from the device, lets see what happens after indexing....

Edit:
The cache.xml changed a lot. The original file, created from calibre, has a huge last line, 850000 characters long, containing info about almost all of the books. on the contrary, the cache.xml created from the device has each book on a new line, without any huge lines occuring. Also the sony file is quite a bit smaller than the original, (715kb from 846kb) Does this matter? should i attach my 2 cache.xml files somewhere?

06-11-2009, 02:33 PM	#141
cartman Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 22 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mytilene, Greece Device: Kobo Aura HD, Sony PRS-505 (Blue)	I just transferred many books to my sony, sure that no tags/collections would appear. But i had an idea: instead of letting the device index everything after disconnecting from usb, i would just disconnect and reconnect the cable after 2-3seconds. And then i saw that calibre could still read tags from the books that are on the device. That means that the problem occurs when the device indexes the books, and the books are transferred to the device in a way that makes at least calibre able to read the tags it has given to them. I have taken a copy of cache.xml from the device, lets see what happens after indexing.... Edit: The cache.xml changed a lot. The original file, created from calibre, has a huge last line, 850000 characters long, containing info about almost all of the books. on the contrary, the cache.xml created from the device has each book on a new line, without any huge lines occuring. Also the sony file is quite a bit smaller than the original, (715kb from 846kb) Does this matter? should i attach my 2 cache.xml files somewhere? Last edited by cartman; 06-11-2009 at 02:47 PM.