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Originally Posted by Lycoming
Is it feasible to reformat the Sony but keep the books on Calibre on the iMac? I presume they would also disappear from the SD card.
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Yes. But of course, if you can't mount the reader onto your Mac, there is no way to copy what is on it to your Mac's hard drive. The reformat will only reformat the internal memory. You will have to format the SD card with your Mac's disk utility. And formatting is always destructive. i hope you have coppies of all your books somewhere else. Or, if you have access to a windows machine some where you can copy them to that.
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Originally Posted by Lycoming
Is there an idiot's guide to reformatting?
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The formatting directions are in the 505 user manual. It is on page 65. You can get the user manual here
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod....pl?mdl=PRS505 if you don't have it handy.
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Originally Posted by Lycoming
Finally; it is ADE which is not operating properly, as you say I'm waiting for the update for Macs later this month. Therefore is a reformat necessary, or should I just wait and see?
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Actually, ADE is working fine. It just doesn't know how to talk to the 505 yet. But, I am afraid even after you get the Mac version of the Sony software you are going to have to reformat that device. A Mac just won't mount an NTFS volume.
BOb