Trimac20
03-05-2004, 06:21 AM
This morning, on the bus I was looking forward to listening to my newly-created music playlist (after deleting the entire former playlist and creating a new one) numbering 65 or so WMA songs only to find, to my horror, they were totally unplayable! (you know, they are grey and not coloured in like usual song titles). On further investigation, I found that the 'Audio' folder I had created in my Storage Card folder, which contained all the songs, was gone! I did not delete the folder, so it appears it must have deleted itself.
Furthermore, I also realised a few programs stored on my SD Card were missing. Among them, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Realplayer and Age of Empires (all of which were stored on my memory card and not on the main memory). The programs stored on the main memory were fine. I'm going to try to re-format the card and (fingers crossed) re-install everything and hopefully it will work as normal, but what I want to know is what caused the file corruption? I admit I do occaisionally take out the SD Card ('hot-swapping) while the ipaq is still turned on but I am pretty sure this is permissable. A few days ago I used the cradle and synced it on another pc, but I don't think that would have done anything. The only other thing I can think of is the fact I used it briefly to take a few photos on a digital camera. Could this have potentially corrupted the digital memory card in some way? Come to think of it, the problems began shortly after I used the card in the camera.
So if you know what the problem is, please share your wisdom. As for me, a tedious re-formatting is in order. Well, at least I've got all the data backed up!
Furthermore, I also realised a few programs stored on my SD Card were missing. Among them, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Realplayer and Age of Empires (all of which were stored on my memory card and not on the main memory). The programs stored on the main memory were fine. I'm going to try to re-format the card and (fingers crossed) re-install everything and hopefully it will work as normal, but what I want to know is what caused the file corruption? I admit I do occaisionally take out the SD Card ('hot-swapping) while the ipaq is still turned on but I am pretty sure this is permissable. A few days ago I used the cradle and synced it on another pc, but I don't think that would have done anything. The only other thing I can think of is the fact I used it briefly to take a few photos on a digital camera. Could this have potentially corrupted the digital memory card in some way? Come to think of it, the problems began shortly after I used the card in the camera.
So if you know what the problem is, please share your wisdom. As for me, a tedious re-formatting is in order. Well, at least I've got all the data backed up!