Who da man?

[babaca]

Apparently I am. I fixed my Reader problem.

1. I reset the reader to default settings

2. I copied all the files off the sd card to my computer desktop [here I noticed there were 2 Sony Reader folders; One called Sony Reader and the other Sony_Reader. They had the same files in it but the database setup in the database folders were different]

3. With the sd card in the reader, I went to Settings->Initializations->Format Memory->SD Card and let it reformat the card

4. After that finished I plugged the reader to my computer and saw in the sd drive that the folder is called Sony_Reader

5. I copied over the files to the Sony_Reader folder and only moved the database folder that was in the Sony_Reader folder on my computer desktop

6. Disconnected the reader from the computer and let it read what was on the sd card. This will take a while if you have a lot of books (I have about 200 titles). After a while you can look at your titles, it may take a while for the thumbnail images of the books to load but let it do its thing.

7. Read a book, press the home button and see... NO MORE CONTENT MANAGER ERRORS! NO MORE CRASHING! YES!

Ah I also notice the reader DOES has the software on it as a partitioned drive. I don't know why it didn't try to install on my computer, but I guess that's what I get for not reading the instructions?

I guess now I can try to enjoy my reader without having to send it back to Sony.

Yeah baby!

x-posted to ebooks

Comments

[stormcloude]

So it sounds like it's reading the card differently and you can't just plug and play an old Sony card in the new Sony ereader?

How... inconvenient.

And now you can give us a rundown on how it works and I can start looking for a sale on 650s. :)

[babaca]

The xml files in the database are named differently. I wonder if I could have just deleted the old database off the card if it would have fixed the problem. Hmm, I'm sure I have an another sd card that I could play with and see if that is an easier fix than reformatting and transferring the books back.

I started reading Josh Lanyon's new novel on it last night before I decided it would be better to go to bed at 2 a.m.

[tameiki]

Go you! I knew, given a little time, you'd be able to find a fix for it :)