calibre

will not recognize Kobo Aura H2O

Bug #1558233 reported by Larry Mingione
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
calibre
Invalid
Undecided
David Forrester

Bug Description

calibre, version 2.53.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

database disk image is malformed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 87, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 503, in _books
  File "site-packages/calibre/devices/kobo/driver.py", line 1781, in books
DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

Tags: kobo-driver
Revision history for this message
Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Re: calibre bug 1558233

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee davidfor
 tag kobo-driver
 status triaged

Changed in calibre:
assignee: nobody → David Forrester (davidfor)
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
David Forrester (davidfor) wrote :

That means the database on the device is corrupted in some way. The most common cause is not ejecting the device from the PC correctly.

The fix unfortunately is to get the database rebuilt on the device. Logging out of the Kobo account on the device will create a new database. When you login again, it will reload the sideloaded books from the device. Unfortunately, this means you lose the reading status of these books.

Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Changed in calibre:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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