Kobo Cover Fixer

[TheDcoder]

3 hours ago, TheSaint said:

WOW ... I could not believe it.

Congratulations bud, a basic feature is now working in Kobo 

[TheSaint]

13 minutes ago, TheDcoder said:

Congratulations bud, a basic feature is now working in Kobo

Yeah, tell me about it.

And my usage essentially hasn't changed, from the first 18 months, where I had no real issue, until now. What has changed, is updates to my device, so clearly they screwed something or the number of ebooks on my device is a factor ... though to be sure, my Kobo device still has much more space free than used.

And as usual, I always treat my devices and drives well, which is carefully. I also never charge my devices, until almost flat ... be that ereader or phone or tablet etc. I eject properly, store and transport properly, etc etc.

My money is on nerdy coders and flawed management as being the real issue ... and I've seen that across many devices.

[TheSaint]

Latest v1.9 update now available, see the first post.

This involves several changes and improvements since my last (v1.4) update upload.
I've held off until I've done a reasonable amount of testing, especially with the new CLONE approach.

[Tuesday 6th May 2025] (v1.5)

Spoiler

As designated previously, the ADD button has two states, ADD or COPY. The related checkbox that picks which state is active, now has a third state (block instead of a tick). So what was previously a copy routine involving a CLONE setup, has now been moved to the third (block) state choice. The new second (tick or checked) state, is for copying one or more images from the BACKUP IMAGES folder, to your Kobo device. NOTE - This is a possible recovery (copy back) solution, but only if you have indeed used the BACKUP IMAGES button previously, and one or more images exists in that folder for the selected ebook, that is currently missing one or more images.

[Monday 21st July 2025] (v1.6)

Spoiler

The LOG button now presents some choices. One choice is to present the 'Log.txt' file as previously. The other two (new) choices involve extracting and viewing extracted portions of the Log file. NOTE - Basically a sorted list of ebooks with covers that were fixed, is saved to a text file for viewing. This is the best way to see if covers for specific ebooks, have needed to be fixed more than once.

[Wednesday 23rd July 2025] (v1.7)

Spoiler

The CLONE button now features a changed and simplified clone process. You basically get two choices, Clone or Restore. It is now all about backing up the ebook image folders & files to a clone folder on your PC, and then quickly restoring from that at need. This potentially reduces the number of cover images to be fixed, to just those involving more recent ebook purchases. It should save time and effort. Added an 'Open Clone Folder' button to the 'Program Settings' window.

[Friday 15th August 2025] (v1.8)

Spoiler

The CLONE button processes of 'Clone' and 'Restore' now show a splash. The visual check window for clone images now makes it clearer where the source and destination images are located. The CREATE button query dialog for replacing possible existing images, is a little clearer about that. The 'restart' option is now properly cleared after a program restart. Some splash screens now give better feedback.

[Tuesday 26th August 2025] (v1.9)

Spoiler

Added another right-click option to the dropbox - Open the device drive folder. NOTE - This might be handy after doing a 'Restore' clone process and restarting the program, where perhaps you forgot to open the device drive folder before that. Added more feedback when cloning or restoring images, in regard to number of entries & images checked. NOTE - Entries is essentially the number of images divided by three ... remembering that the number of entries (or ebooks) listed in the 'KoboReader.sqlite' file is not the same as the number of ebooks downloaded to your Kobo device, as it also contains advertised ones.

 

Edited 15 hours ago by TheSaint