Error Communicating with Device

cgdt99 · 09-24-2011, 06:43 PM

Can someone please help me. I got my Kobo a few months ago and was told to download Calibre. I did and foudn it really easy to use and to get books onto my kobo. Today I plug my kobo in via usb and when I open Calibre I get an error message of this :

Error Communicating with Device

The details are as follows:

database disk image is malformed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 81, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 332, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 249, in books
DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

I am going on a big holiday int eh next couple of days and really want to get some books onto my Kobo.

I have rebooted my kobo, reinstalled the kobo program as well and deleted calibre and re downloaded.

Can some one please help me

JD Gumby · 09-25-2011, 12:41 AM

No idea how to fix that, sorry, but you CAN open up your Kobo as a storage device in Windows (Start->Computer) and drag-and-drop the books you want on it.

kiwipippa · 09-25-2011, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JD Gumby

No idea how to fix that, sorry, but you CAN open up your Kobo as a storage device in Windows (Start->Computer) and drag-and-drop the books you want on it.

Do what JD suggests - it is easy and always works. Simply pick up the .epub from the calibre library in explorer and copy it to the top level directory on your kobo. I started doing this when my KT and calibre stopped playing nicely - and now it is the only way I transfer books (or use the content server instead)

Latch · 09-26-2011, 12:15 PM

Someone else had this same problem a couple of days ago and the suggestion was a factory reset.

09-24-2011, 06:43 PM	#1
cgdt99 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: KOBO	Error Communicating with Device Can someone please help me. I got my Kobo a few months ago and was told to download Calibre. I did and foudn it really easy to use and to get books onto my kobo. Today I plug my kobo in via usb and when I open Calibre I get an error message of this : Error Communicating with Device The details are as follows: database disk image is malformed Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 81, in run File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 332, in _books File "site-packages\calibre\devices\kobo\driver.py", line 249, in books DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed I am going on a big holiday int eh next couple of days and really want to get some books onto my Kobo. I have rebooted my kobo, reinstalled the kobo program as well and deleted calibre and re downloaded. Can some one please help me

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09-25-2011, 12:41 AM	#2
JD Gumby Cynical Old Curmudgeon Posts: 1,085 Karma: 8495696 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Halifax, Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Kobo Arc, HTC Desire C	No idea how to fix that, sorry, but you CAN open up your Kobo as a storage device in Windows (Start->Computer) and drag-and-drop the books you want on it.

09-26-2011, 12:15 PM	#4
Latch Porcupine Tree fan Posts: 139 Karma: 357322 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Ottawa, Canada Device: Kobo Touch	Someone else had this same problem a couple of days ago and the suggestion was a factory reset.

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