The incredible shrinking memory card

[gai-jin]

I got my new 512 mini SD card wednesday. Yesterday I got an error when copying a 1mb audio file, telling me the card is full. at the time, file manager showed only 414mb on the card. Now i can't save a 50k picture on the card, even though i cleared space and now have only 314mb on the card. is it just me, or did i get a bad card?

[Kris Kumar]

Really weird...

Do you have a card reader or a Pocket PC? Try using the card in one of those first.

[gai-jin]

I do have a card reader... that's how I loaded this initially... dumped everything from my 256mb card to the pc, then to the 512 through the card reader.

[Mike Temporale]

Did you format the card? If so, don't use FAT32, it should be FAT.

[gai-jin]

Hmm... that may be it... I'll have to check that.

One thing that I think was going on, though not this exact problem... I had set media player to sync playlists of most recently played music... everytime I'd delete a few files then sync, I think it was copying more music over. So the music folder keeps growing.

Still doesn't explain why file manager shows 300ish MB and I'm getting storage full errors though.

:(

[Kris Kumar]

Wonder if there is some kind of "Recycle Bin" on the the storage card? Which would explain why the storage is shrinking when you delete files or sync media files.

[Jerry Raia]

This is exactly how my SanDisk card behaved before it died completely. For a while I could just read it on the phone. Then it was as dead as Julius Ceasar.

[gai-jin]

This is a brand new 'Ridata' ultra gold or something like that. supposed to be a 66x card.

I've used Ridata dvd media for a while, and had great luck with it, so figured I'd try a mini SD from them.

I'll dump it to my pc to make sure I've got everything backed up, and try it for a couple more days to see if it's really a bad card or maybe just something I'm doing wrong, then Maybe send it back for an exchange.

Thanks
Gai-jin