Kobo Collections and new laptop...

[jazzchilli]

Hi everyone, this is my first post so apologies if it has been covered before, I couldn't find anything in the search.

I managed to set up collections in Calibre and sync these to Collections on my Kobo Glo. After a few months they mysteriously stopped working and I had to go back to manually adding new books to collections on my device. I waited for a fix but nothing.

Recently I got a new laptop and so had to set up a new library. The books which are assigned to a collection (about 2500 out of 3800) are still in their Collections on the Kobo, but the Collections info didn't transfer to the new Calibre library.

Is there any way to get this info back into Calibre from the Kobo? Deleting the collections on the Kobo and starting again would also delete the books from the Kobo and I'd like to avoid having to reassign 2500 books to the Collections if I can avoid it!

Any info about whether this functionality is still supported would also be appreciated.

thanks, Jazzchilli

[theducks]

If you had transferred your Library (and configuration settings) from your old Laptop, any info should have survived.

A Kobo expert will have to help you with recovery.

You have installed the Kobo extended plugins properly?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jazzchilli

Hi everyone, this is my first post so apologies if it has been covered before, I couldn't find anything in the search.

I managed to set up collections in Calibre and sync these to Collections on my Kobo Glo. After a few months they mysteriously stopped working and I had to go back to manually adding new books to collections on my device. I waited for a fix but nothing.

The collection management from calibre to the Kobo devices is working with no problems here. And it has never stopped. If it stopped working for you, it is probably a change in configuration that turned it off. Have a look at https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo...nd_Collections to check your configuration. If it still doesn't work, post again and we can work it out.

Recently I got a new laptop and so had to set up a new library. The books which are assigned to a collection (about 2500 out of 3800) are still in their Collections on the Kobo, but the Collections info didn't transfer to the new Calibre library.

Is there any way to get this info back into Calibre from the Kobo? Deleting the collections on the Kobo and starting again would also delete the books from the Kobo and I'd like to avoid having to reassign 2500 books to the Collections if I can avoid it!

The collection management is one way, from calibre to the Kobo device. There is a "Get Shelves From Device" function in my Kobo Utilities plugin that is designed for this type of situation. It populate a column in you library with the collections for each book on the device.