09-12-2024, 06:03 PM | #1 |
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Restoring Missing Highlights (which are still in Clippings)?
This is puzzling; I opened a book today and found all my notes and highlights missing. (A big deal for me, as I'm a book reviewer and I need my notes on the text.) No idea what caused it, since I haven't updated recently or anything like that.
But when I dug out the My Clippings file - connecting my kindle to my pc and accessing the file that way - it still lists all my notes and highlights. Does anyone know if there's a way to get my kindle to load my notes again? I already tried restarting, that didn't help. Editing to add: this and all my other books are side-loaded, so none of my notes are synced by Amazon. Last edited by Siavahda; 09-13-2024 at 06:28 AM. Reason: forgot to mention |
09-13-2024, 02:32 AM | #2 |
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MyClippings is only a copy of those notes.
Notes themselves are in folder which have names the same as the book + “.sdr” (stands for “sidecar”). Did you by chance remove those folders from your Kindle storage recently? |
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09-13-2024, 04:10 AM | #3 |
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That would not matter if the book is purchased from Amazon, or a personal document stored in Library cloud; it would sync from cloud on next connection. I assume the book was side-loaded.
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09-13-2024, 06:27 AM | #4 |
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I didn't realise they were only copies! But no, I haven't touched any of the folders.
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09-13-2024, 06:27 AM | #5 |
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Correct, all my books are side-loaded. (I have to mess with the formatting in calibre for accessibility reasons.)
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