Collections disappeared

[desertblues]

Yesterday, after a reboot because my Kindle got stuck at searching for an author, all my collections disappeared.
The word ' collections' grayed out.
I do have a lot of books and had it sorted nicely and am a bit unhappy about it.
Has anybody else experienced the same and what to do?
Do I have to empty my Kindle and replace its contents with the backup (!) I made last week ? Will that work?

[babyd]

happened to me too. Just deregister and reregister it and they will come back, providing you synced after you created them at least once


if that doesn't work then you can replace the .json file in the system folder with one from your back up.

The first option will work if you had wireless on after you created them though

[desertblues]

Thank you; has it also synchronised the books in the collection I didn't buy at Amazon?

[babyd]

yes, stores all collection info

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by babyd

happened to me too. Just deregister and reregister it and they will come back, providing you synced after you created them at least once


if that doesn't work then you can replace the .json file in the system folder with one from your back up.

The first option will work if you had wireless on after you created them though

Thank you Babyd; my collections are back to almost normal. Thank heaven I did a backup yesterday, before I loaded some more books.
I copied the whole folder 'system' from my backup to the Kindle, as copying the .json file alone didn't work for me. My ' fault' was that I started sorting my books right after I had loaded 75 books. From experience = let the Kindle rest a bit after loading a lot of books, so it can index , and load it, I should have known better.

[cyr0n]

collections disappeared recently, I just rebooted the Kindle and everything was where it belonged. pheeewww

Maybe it's a good idea to back up the system folder on a regular basis though. With more then 500 books it is quite a heck of work.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by cyr0n

collections disappeared recently, I just rebooted the Kindle and everything was where it belonged. pheeewww

Maybe it's a good idea to back up the system folder on a regular basis though. With more then 500 books it is quite a heck of work.

I tend to go sloppy on backing up, but losing my collections the other day was a good reminder.