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Bitman · 03-22-2010, 07:11 PM

Hi everybody,

I'm new to the forum. I'm a very happy owner of a Sony PRS-505 from Italy.
I use it with Calibre and have a 2 GB card always installed.

The only issue I encountered in 18 months of use is that when *something* goes wrong, the reader loses all info (tags?) about books (title, author), etc.; info has to be written back from within Calibre.

Being sick and tired of all this, I decided to have a full backup of the internal memory and SD card on the hard disk of my PC, reckoning that in this way I would be able to easily restore the tags in case of trouble (similar to Windows' System Restore). Well, guess what? Trouble happened today, but my restore strategy did not work

.

I copied the backup from my hard disk to the Sony, removed the USB cable, the Sony took an awful lot of time (presumably reindexing all the ebooks, there are 161 on it) after which all tags were reverted back to the ones built into the files.

I tried several times to no avail. The interesting thing is that if I open Calibre after having restored my backup, it lists all books with their correct tags.

I understand the info is located in the media.xml files. Opening media.xml from my backup reveals lots of information including all the correct tags. I can only assume there are other files as well, maybe hidden, which happen to be inconsistent with my memory snapshot and trigger a full reindexing of the books.

Is there a way to render my tags permanent? If not, is there a safe way to backup the cache?

Thanks,
-- Carlo aka Bitman.

03-22-2010, 07:11 PM	#1
Bitman Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Snoy PRS-505	All tags lost - Backup? Hi everybody, I'm new to the forum. I'm a very happy owner of a Sony PRS-505 from Italy. I use it with Calibre and have a 2 GB card always installed. The only issue I encountered in 18 months of use is that when something goes wrong, the reader loses all info (tags?) about books (title, author), etc.; info has to be written back from within Calibre. Being sick and tired of all this, I decided to have a full backup of the internal memory and SD card on the hard disk of my PC, reckoning that in this way I would be able to easily restore the tags in case of trouble (similar to Windows' System Restore). Well, guess what? Trouble happened today, but my restore strategy did not work . I copied the backup from my hard disk to the Sony, removed the USB cable, the Sony took an awful lot of time (presumably reindexing all the ebooks, there are 161 on it) after which all tags were reverted back to the ones built into the files. I tried several times to no avail. The interesting thing is that if I open Calibre after having restored my backup, it lists all books with their correct tags. I understand the info is located in the media.xml files. Opening media.xml from my backup reveals lots of information including all the correct tags. I can only assume there are other files as well, maybe hidden, which happen to be inconsistent with my memory snapshot and trigger a full reindexing of the books. Is there a way to render my tags permanent? If not, is there a safe way to backup the cache? Thanks, -- Carlo aka Bitman. Last edited by Bitman; 03-22-2010 at 07:14 PM.