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Unreal32
03-24-2003, 11:12 PM
Has anyone seen this problem before? I go to my SD storage card (iPaq 3955) and there are all kinds of folders there with all sorts of weird file names. Some I can delete, and others it tells me that I cannot because they are in read-only memory or in use. Can anyone help?

In addition, it shows some folders as 1.59 GB and 3.99GB... although I'm only using a Sandisk 256 MB SD card.

http://www.ericshotwell.net/folderprob.jpg
bmhome1
03-24-2003, 11:22 PM
When the same type of gibberish file names happened to my SD card, I had to reformat it. It appears to be a type of card corruption.
bobkatt
03-25-2003, 01:21 AM
Your cards format has been corrupted by an electrical or maybe a nearby magnet? You can go HERE (http://www.cnet.net) and download a program called Flash Format.
This should clear things up.

Good luck
Unreal32
03-25-2003, 02:49 AM
Your cards format has been corrupted by an electrical or maybe a nearby magnet? You can go HERE (http://www.cnet.net) and download a program called Flash Format.
This should clear things up.

Good luck

Link doesn't work.
Weyoun6
03-25-2003, 02:55 AM
I think he meant

http://www.cnetx.com/format/
Unreal32
03-26-2003, 03:06 PM
Thanks. Instead, I just popped it into a PCMCIA adapter and formatted it that way. Although somehow when I re-installed, I lost my My Documents folder... although that could be user error more than anything. :oops:
Sven Johannsen
03-26-2003, 03:27 PM
My Documents doesn't happen by itself. If you reformat, just like a hard drive or a floppy, everything is gone. Just create the folder yourself. You can do that from the desktop in the adapter if you wish.

Some of the PPC based formatting programs have the option for the program to automatically create a My Documents after a format.
bobkatt
03-26-2003, 03:42 PM
From what I understand, the older PocketPC's required a "My Documents" folder. The newer PocketPC 2002, does not require this folder. You can as mentioned earlier create one through the desktop. Either through the CF card reader/writer or through Activesync with the card in the iPAQ.

Good luck
Unreal32
03-26-2003, 03:55 PM
My Documents doesn't happen by itself. If you reformat, just like a hard drive or a floppy, everything is gone. Just create the folder yourself. You can do that from the desktop in the adapter if you wish.

I understand that completely. What I'm saying is that when I re-created the file structure I thought I had built a My Documents folder and populated it with all the old data I'd had in there before... but somehow either I screwed up and didn't create it, or I deleted it somehow.
bobkatt
03-26-2003, 04:16 PM
Just try and stay away from using all that grey matter in the brain. :-)
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