03-07-2008, 02:03 PM | #16 | |
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And riddle me this. The \eBooks folder was *EMPTY* - I had problems with the Gen3 remembering my font choices. Then I moved the mobipocket.param file BACK. Suddenly, the Cybook remembers my choices. Note that the Cybook did NOT re-create the mobipocket.param file on its own... And this is a brand-spanking-new (well, okay, a month old) Cybook! I've done nothing to it but add in a few ebooks and delete a few ebooks. No dropping it on the floor, no sitting on it by mistake, no dunking it in water - nothing at all that could be considered harmful. So when, where, why and how would this 'file system corruption' occur? Derek |
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If you know something about debugging programs you know that you have to test things. You can theorize how much you want but often you miss something and you are lead in the wrong direction. I have confirmed that with a working Cybook it recreates the file. Your file was not recreated so there is a problem and the symptom is that the file was not recreated. And it is easy to have a theory for your observations (it might be wrong). The cybook tries to create the file. It fails and remounts the file system read only. When you moved the file back maybe you copied it to another place on the file system that worked. I have once ot twice forgotten to unmount before removing the cable. I assume that can happen for other people also so there is not hard to explain how a file corruption can occur. Trivial googling give you from Wikipedia: Quote:
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Second, this is *MY* Cybook, not some throwaway I can test to destruction. If it goes down I LOSE my main reading source! So I'm not that willing to just willy-nilly poke and prod until it breaks - unless it's already failed to the point of uselessness as is. Third, I'm using a WinXP machine and I've never had to 'unmount' the Cybook before unplugging it. Believe me, I've plugged and unplugged the previous one well over 1,000 times and this one over 100 times. What I always do when I'm tranferring book files across, is do the transfer and then clean up the old files I want to remove and then let it sit there soaking up electrons for a good long while. |
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03-07-2008, 04:25 PM | #19 |
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Deap breath, please fellows, remember tone often doesn't come through well in these forums, so sometimes things read more tersely than they're meant by the writer.
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I didn't think you were, y'all just seemed to be talking at crossed purposes, and I was hoping to ... uncross them.
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Here is what I did.. I plugged in my 505 and backup all the files accessible on the internal memory. That way if I screw something up, I can restore back to that point. Maybe doing that with the Gen3 would be a good idea.
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OK. It is hard to know peoples knowledge level. Since you have written that you install a lot of program programs and run things in command line interface I had misjudged it. Also if you read this forum it has been described here how to do it.
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03-07-2008, 05:20 PM | #25 | |
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As for the second... I've not yet received the latest firmware update - and my firmware I *DO* have is build 476, not 538. Not a good thing. As for the third... I'm going to presume you're NOT being sarcastic when you ask whether I understood that you meant the same thing using 'unmount' as by 'safely remove hardware'. Derek |
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