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Moving a book to another folder deleted my notes, highlights, bookmarks, and reading progress #11773
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How did you do that, in details? |
I didn't have a cable at hand so I couldn't check the .sdr folder but am now looking into it. I cannot find my notes and highlights anywhere so I'm quite sad :( |
I saw that there was a |
Yes, that is the proper way of moving a book, sdr folder (containing highlights/notes) is moved together with the book automatically. |
Damn it I tried with another book and that worked fine. I don’t know what the issue then is with my original book. I retried it with the book that went wrong and that also worked fine now. It was one of the first books I synced via the Calibre extension, but when I try it on another book that was placed there by the Calibre extension and was still untouched, made a highlight and moved it to a new folder and it was also fine. Can’t reproduce, seems like a really unfortunate and difficult to trace bug then… if you have any other ideas I’d be really glad to try to chase it. Otherwise I fear it must be closed for now. |
@GroenteLepel In the future, you can change the progress/highlights metadata storage mode so that it stores them based on the hash of your document instead of its location (so you can move and copy the document outside of KOReader freely without fear of losing anything). Go to Settings cog -> Document -> Book metadata location and change it to the third option (ending in 'hashdocsettings'). Caveat is if you modify a document you're reading, its metadata will get unlinked. Calibre sync might modify the file, so this might only be viable if you don't plan to sync files after starting to read. I use Syncthing to sync my files and metadata to get around this. |
@ryanwwest - Useful new feature, adding this to the user guide. Are you the author (for proofreading the guide text)? |
Yes, though a lot of others helped. |
Issue
I moved a book one folder deeper into my folder hierarchy and all my highlights, notes, and reading position are deleted.
Steps to reproduce
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Have I messed up by step 6 and overwritten my metadata file? I did some googling already about it and I think it has something to do with my
.sdr
, but the main reason for making this issue is that it is definetely not clear from koreader itself. I also cannot find anything in the koreader user guide about this when searching for "notes", "highlights", "metadata" or "moving".Here's a link to a Reddit post I tried to follow but I could not find the settings menu related.
crash.log
(if applicable)Not sure if applicable. If it is, let me know.
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