10-15-2018, 09:43 AM | #1 |
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Books not showing as on "Device"
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No idea what happened, but Calibre isn't showing which books are on my device anymore. Or rather, it's not showing most books. I have a Kobo Aura One, and I wanted to replace a few books (fixed some errors in Calibre). So, I plugged in my Kobo, started Calibre and... according to Calibre, I didn't have those books on my reader! I most certainly have them, I can open them on my device, I can see them in the file explorer. But Calibre thinks I only have a handful of books on there. Is there a way to rebuild the [no idea what] Calibre uses to keep track on which books are on my device, without having to replace every single book? It's not that I can't read my books now, it's just annoying if I want to replace books and especially if I want to sync things like date read and progress... |
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Were the missing books bought (from the Kobo store) direct to device? They may be in protected (from you ) storage
metadata.calibre (on the device:root) contains the results of the scan and updates. Delete that the launch Calibre and be prepared to wait out a complete device scan (leave the other calibre file, it has the devices ID, used when multiple systems connect) |
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I also tried something. I uploaded a book again (that I already have on the device, so it was overwritten), closed Calibre, deleted the file again, started Calibre and it again came back with exactly the same list as before, excluding the book I had just put on my device! so, it looks like I'll have to re-copy all my books again... |
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10-17-2018, 04:03 PM | #5 |
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Calibre updates that file when you use Calibre to Add or Delete. On rare occasions, it can become corrupt (usually yanking the USB before 'Safe to Remove') .
The other, would be those that use the device to move the locations of books from where Calibre last found them. That should be the only times you need to force a rescan by removing that file |
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Can you check a calibre preference? On the "Sending books to devices" page of the preferences, can you check what the "Metadata management" option is set to? In general, using the automatic option works better with the Kobo devices. But, I just can't remember exactly how this option affect this. In general, the books are matched using the author and title. If these are different on the device to what is in the library, then the books won't match. There is a problem with Kobo devices for books with multiple authors. Kobo doesn't like the way that calibre normally puts these in the metadata and usually only shows one author. That means these don't match. You can use a metadata plugboard to fix this. The matching also doesn't work as well if you send the author as "LN, FN" or use the title_sort rather than the title. You can manually match books using the Device list. Select an unmatched book, right click and select the option to match, search for the book, select it and then press OK. After doing this, you need to use the "Update cached metadata on device" function that is in the menu of the device button. You won't want to do this if you have a lot of unmatched books, but, it is the simplest solution for a few. |
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Looks like I'll have to rematch all my books, or upload them all again (probably do a combination, so I can hopefullly get the Kobo metadata, like reading position and date last read again in my Calibre DB...) |
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Since you mentioned series, do you use metadata plugboards to add the series info to title?
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And when Kobo finally give in to my very polite requests for a series list, I'll be very happy. Though I'm sure I'll quickly find something else to complain about. |
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10-19-2018, 04:52 AM | #12 |
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I may have the same problem. The issue for me is that the calibre doesn't list all the books on the "Device" window, so I can't manually match the books, and some books are only on my kobo, but not in my calibre database, but this should not matter (or maybe it does?), calibre still should see all the books on kobo.
And just deleting books from kobo and reuploading won't work, because all new uploaded books won't appear on "Device" window when you reconnect kobo. This problem occurs to me a second time. Both times after I used fresh calibre installation with a new database (the books were uploaded with my previous calibre installation), I did not bother with backups as I don't have that many books or a proper database, I just add a book to calibre and upload to my kobo as I need. I could not figure it out the first time so I just reset my kobo and that fixed the problem, but this is not ideal solution. |
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If the books are in the library on the device, and not in the device list. It usually means there was an error during the connection. And that needs to be investigated. Quote:
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I decided to do a complete factory reset (that got rid of that annoying "your drive is corrupt!" which didn't want to get away otherwise, not even after scanning...). I just couldn't get it to work anymore. Even a book I had just placed on it, couldn't be found when I restarted Calibre... Apparently my database (even though I have set it to backup once a day) wasn't backed up...
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