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Originally Posted by chaley
There must be another change somewhere, because 2 IDs were used. It is probably a new collection, but it is worth being sure.
To verify, you copied the original of the media.xml from the device just before starting calibre to put the book on the reader? My concern is that if it is a copy from some time back (like from before you put the device into your home machine), you might be comparing to the 'right' one when the actual media.xml before insertion was different.
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Yes, I copied the file from the device before starting Calibre.
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You can test if the Sony SW is rescanning the library by sending some .txt file to the device. Create a small file, import it into calibre, set its author and title to something other than Unknown (e.g., Joe Blogs, My Precious Text File) and send it to the device. After you unplug the device, check on it to see if the author and title are still there. If they are, then Sony and calibre are in agreement on the date. If they are not, then Sony and calibre had a fight, and Sony won. This test works because .txt files contain no metadata, so a Sony scan with mismatching dates will reset the metadata to Sony defaults.
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Did just that and the file is still there in media.xml. The reader shows the metadata set in Calibre.
I had a look at the locale settings but they are the same between my 3 systems.
Also started searching for the mismatch in dates between one system and the other and think I might have found it. Due to setting the alternate date format in PRS+ and a bug in that part of the code (solved in latest release) I had a bit of an accident. The creation date is 16 may 2010 but the modification date is 1 jan 2010. Looks like Windows 7 and Windows XP in combination with python end up using a different date in media.xml causing the Reader to scan all books to see what is right.
I think if I erase my reader and re-upload its content everything should be fine again. Its just a little late right now in my timezone so that will have to wait til tomorrow.
Regards,
Joop