invalid database

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by chaley

What "corrupt database" message? CC doesn't have a message containing "corrupt" or its variants, so I am guessing that the message came from calibre.

The wireless driver that CC uses does not write the calibre database except under one condition: the "sync read information" column names have been filled in. In this case the driver uses the calibre database layer, just as the rest of calibre does.

Like eschwartz, I am interested in how the restore failure manifested itself. How did you know it failed? Were there error messages? Something else? I wrote that code, so if there is something broken I need to fix it.

Your problems "smell" a bit like they come from failing hardware. Have you checked that the disc in your computer is not going bad or that the file system is messed up? If not, you might want to schedule a full chkdsk (one that reads the entire disc) to see if there are bad spots. The same thing might be happening to the RAM in your machine. A memory tester would put that possibility to bed.

I never received a message from CC but from Calibre indeed. I wish I had copied the last one, which I received (3 times) after my 3 attempts at recovering the database. It was a very short one actually, a 3 liners or so..

I will check my disc...