Thread: PRS-505 All tags lost - Backup?
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Old 03-24-2010, 07:25 AM   #2
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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 .
It isn't a backup until you restore it and it works.

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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.
It is only 161 books. Calibre is your backup. Just use Calibre to delete the books from the Sony. Now select the 161 books in Calibre and send them to the device. It only takes a couple of minutes and all your collections will be back just like before.
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