Screenshots appearing in My Books screen

[Nick Payne]

I have a Clara HD, and I periodically find that what appears to be a screenshot shows up in the list of books when I go to the My Books screen - see below.

I recall that with a Aura HD that I used to have, it was possible to take screenshots, but when I did so, they didn't show up in My Books. I haven't tried to take any screenshots with the Clara HD - don't even know if that capability still exists - so I don't know where these are coming from. Can anyone tell me what causes them and how to prevent them? The Clara is running current 4.20.14622 firmware, but this problem has been happening for a considerable time with multiple FW levels.

[RobertJSawyer]

Yes, this happens to me on my Kobo Clara HD, and I find it irritating.

If you want to turn off screenshots (which are saved when you press the power button, if you've turned screenshot capability on):

Edit the file:

H:\.kobo\Kobo\Kobo eReader.conf

where H:\ is the drive of your Kobo eReader:

Find:

[FeatureSettings]
Screenshots=true

Change it to:

[FeatureSettings]
Screenshots=false

The screenshots are saved in the root of the main memory as
files with names in the form screen_???.png, where ??? are numbers. You can delete the existing ones from there.

[geek1011]

One trick you can do to prevent these from being imported is using the sync exclude config file option (see the dotfile back thread) to prevent screen_* files from being imported. Note that this will cause previously imported screenshots to be deleted.