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hrosvit · 07-13-2010, 10:05 PM

I have had my Nook for a little over a week, and am loving it. The only (major) complaint I have is the inability to organize the sideloaded books under "My Documents" into folders, to make it easier (quicker) to find what I'm looking for. Hopefully, that will be remedied in some future firmware upgrade.

But here is my problem: I have about 175 sideloaded books, that I have been storing on the internal memory. I just bought a 16GB microSD card, and want to transfer them all to the card. I inserted the card, copied the books (and added some music) to the card (just using Windows Explorer), and then unplugged the Nook. It said "Searching for New Content" for about 20 minutes, until I finally cancelled the process, then it showed no books present. So I took everything off the card, and tried again, this time loading about 20 books to the card through Calibre. Calibre shows the books as being present on the card, and when I view the Nook and card in Windows Explorer, it shows the books as present on the card. When I disconnect, it goes through the "Searching for New Content" routine, and again hangs up. The books never show up under "My Documents" - it just says "No items". The card is formatted Fat32. And when I look under "Settings" on the Nook, it shows the card present, and shows the correct amount of available memory. I tried removing the card, re-formatting it and re-installing it, and re-loading the books, with the same result.

Anyone have any suggestions? Is there some type of directory or file structure requirements that I am not following?

07-13-2010, 10:05 PM	#1
hrosvit Moron Posts: 333 Karma: 3113890 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southwest PA Device: iPad 3, Galaxy Note 2, Nook ST	Problem transferring books to new SD card I have had my Nook for a little over a week, and am loving it. The only (major) complaint I have is the inability to organize the sideloaded books under "My Documents" into folders, to make it easier (quicker) to find what I'm looking for. Hopefully, that will be remedied in some future firmware upgrade. But here is my problem: I have about 175 sideloaded books, that I have been storing on the internal memory. I just bought a 16GB microSD card, and want to transfer them all to the card. I inserted the card, copied the books (and added some music) to the card (just using Windows Explorer), and then unplugged the Nook. It said "Searching for New Content" for about 20 minutes, until I finally cancelled the process, then it showed no books present. So I took everything off the card, and tried again, this time loading about 20 books to the card through Calibre. Calibre shows the books as being present on the card, and when I view the Nook and card in Windows Explorer, it shows the books as present on the card. When I disconnect, it goes through the "Searching for New Content" routine, and again hangs up. The books never show up under "My Documents" - it just says "No items". The card is formatted Fat32. And when I look under "Settings" on the Nook, it shows the card present, and shows the correct amount of available memory. I tried removing the card, re-formatting it and re-installing it, and re-loading the books, with the same result. Anyone have any suggestions? Is there some type of directory or file structure requirements that I am not following?