I have two folders in my trinity's SD that I can't delete due to system warnings like "make sure is not protected" and stuff like that. Do anyone has any idea of how to force the elimination of them? any handy soft or registry key?
Regards
J.ยท.
my first try would be from a pc cardreader
You could try using WM5Torage, and connecting the device directly. Or put the card in any other device.
If that fails, I think the only way is to format the storage card...
Sometimes if there are corrupt files in a folder it can't be deleted, the only way (I think) is to format it (backup every thing else and copy back to card).
Some folders are created automatic by the OS (like IEcache in some ROM's), but that can be set up in the registry.
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hi,
this may seem silly but i cannot seem to back my SD card up (in case of any failure)
i'm not too sure if this is the case however, i cannot seem to copy my installed software directories which are installed on my SD??? (they all have a default ending of say...
BetaPlayer.
eWallet.
Pocket Controller.
buttonMax. <<-- notice the FULLSTOP?
all the other directories copy fine except for these folders.
is anybody having any issues copying ALL files from their SD card?
is there any software that can full backup the SD card to the computer?
ie. similar to SPRITE backup?? or can SPRITE even do this? how do you set it?
Hi
Strange...
Maybe the filesystem on card is screwed up.
Try creating directories (on PC) manually (with the same names) and then copy files from inside(s).
If you succeed this way, format the SD and copy all data back.
Good luck.
I had a similar problem some time back, with those '.'s appearing after some of the directories, and not being able to do much about them, except through a card reader connected to the PC (and sometimes not even then).
eventually i had to reformat the whole card to get it working again, using CNetX's Flash Format, which also has a utility to check and try to fix cards. you can check it out here. http://www.cnetx.com/format/
Google for a freeware product called MobSync. The website is mainly in Japanese but the product is in (pidgeon) English. MobSync can sync. any directory on the PC with any on the device, one way or both ways.
I have it set to sync my Storage and Storage Card to my PC on each connect. It doesn't handle files which are too large, has the odd spelling error and has some minor issues with AS4 but as a fall back mechanism it is excellent.
Note: it doesn't convert files when it copies them - again this is a minor issue and there is a shareware product there that seems to do this.
hi i'm not too sure what you mean when you say file conversion from PC to PDA or PDA to PC?
does this matter?
jimjamz said:
hi i'm not too sure what you mean when you say file conversion from PC to PDA or PDA to PC?
does this matter?
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It can matter but it's not a major issue. For example if you pull a Pocket Word file over via ActiveSync it is converted on the way and becomes a Word/WordPad document at the PC end, this doesn't happen with MobSync.
If all you are looking to do is preseve the data from your Storage and Storage Card, it will serve the purpose just fine.
Has anyone found a registry tweak to move the PIM.VOL file to a SD Card? My PIM.VOL is topping 5 meg and would like to free up some space.
I have the same problem. What does the PIM file do?
I have the same problem. What does the PIM file do?
Nobody has a clue ? Would be great to move these large files to either the SD Card or the Ext ROM space.
Buzz ?
Cheers
hrb
The pim.vol file contains all of your contacts, calendar entries, and tasks.
As far as I'm aware there's no way to move this to SD card. And that's been the case since my first PPC phone, so it probably can't be done. If it could, then I'm sure some bright spark would've figured it out by now.
Looks like we're stuck with it in our Storage memory...
For awhile I had both a PIM.vol and a PIM.volc - one was 9MB and the other over 8MB. So needless to say I was running out of storage memory even though I put almost everything on my SD card. Anyone know what the second one was for?
I found a setting in the registry a while back:
HKLM\System\Platform\DataPath = \
I wanted to have a fiddle and see if I could move the .VOL files into a directory rather than the root, but I figured that this was one of those hard-reset-if-it-goes-wrong moments.
Is this the right setting? Is it possible to copy the .VOL files somewhere else, change this setting and reboot?
Even if it is only to \Documents and Settings\<user> it would make the root directory clean.
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For awhile I had both a PIM.vol and a PIM.volc - one was 9MB and the other over 8MB. So needless to say I was running out of storage memory even though I put almost everything on my SD card. Anyone know what the second one was for?[/quote
The first thing Sprite Backup does is creating copies of the databases (.vol) with a .volc extension. If you cancel a backup, these are not deleted. Sprite confirmed that as being a mistake to me and promised, to post that under q&a. I didn't check since....
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Regarding the PIM.volc, if it happens again I assume I can just delete it. I got rid of it by doing a hard reset and a restore so I have solved the probem for now.
I've had the PIM.volc file/error before and I just manually deleted it with no problems at all.
Recently, I had installed Tweaks2K2 and after doing some changes regarding date and time display in Today title bar, I uninstalled it. The main reason behind uninstallation being after every change the device had to be reset (which is quiet obvious as it involved a change in registry settings). However, now, whenever my device is restarted, either through a soft-reset or by simply powering it OFF and switching it ON, I have observed that a new folder called "Storage Card" is created containing a sub-directory called "Inbox". And when the SD Card is inserted, the device recognizes the card as "Storgae Card2". Since most of my apps are installed in Storage Card, they don't work as their links point to their respective installed folders in \Storage Card\ which in this case becomes a dummy.
The only workaround I have found so far is that, after every re-start, I remove the SD Card, delete the folder "Storage Card" from File Explorer and then insert my SD Card again. The SD Card is then displayed as "Storgae Card" in File Explorer and then everything works fine and as expected. I want to know the reason behind this issue and how to rectify it. Any help would be highly appreciated.
I have configured the Sprite Backup to store the backup files created on Storage Card. I fear that with this situation, Sprite may not be able to create a backup file and thus will hamper the functionality of the software (though I can re-configure the options for Sprite to store the backup file in device memory and later move it to the storage card after doing the above work around)
My device details are as below -
ROM : 1.7.455.2 WWE
Radio : 02.79.90
Protocol : 4.1.13.34
ExtROM : 1.7.455.102
Hi @ all,
since a few days most of my memory card directories disapperaed. There are only the My Documents folder (which is empty, too) and a TEMP folder I created left on the card.
Although I searched for some threads like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294324 all attempts failed.
The space on the card is still occupied and when re-installing programms a new Program directory is created with the same name as the dissapeared one. I have one program when the installer claimed to remove the previous version first before re-installation. So it seems to find something (but I assume in Windows directory or registry).
How will I get the dissappeared folders back? Is there any other chance than formating the SD card and re-installing all programs?
I'm using bepe's cooked German WM6 V0.96 (the last one) and a 2 GB miniSD-Card. It worked quite well since a year now...
Thanks for help,
TC
TC25FFM said:
Hi @ all,
since a few days most of my memory card directories disapperaed... when re-installing programms a new Program directory is created
TC
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... y lo cagaste, me temo.
trinity, for some reason, spoils the FAT and reestablishes it with new data. the FAT is like a directory of "where to find what on disk".
as yout fat doesn't work properly, especially it doesn't show off the used sectors or clusters, all new storage will overwrite and destroy this way part of your old data.
so if this happens, remove inmediately the sd-card, put it into your PC card reader and pass it trough file appropiate rescue programs and you'll mostly find almoust all files.
so take a breath, download file rescue pgm's to your PC (some work better, others have many options, others ...) and have a try.
after the rescue, format the SD in your PC.
mine is just passing the rescue :-( and it's rescueing about 1600 files yet
regards
Howdy, couldn't find this anywhere
htc Advantage 7510 running MichyPrima ROM for years. Internal (built-in) flash drive developed one corrupt directory (the backup directory for SPB backup, natch) and got filled up, before this had plenty of room. The bad directory now appears to contain subdirectories and files with gobble-de-goop names, dates, etc. and when I try to delete any or all of them it tells me either that the file name contains illegal characters and therefor can't be deleted, or that the file is a system file and access is denied (of course the files are not write-protected). Trying to get at it and delete it while connected to an XP desktop also doesn't help because it is not recognized as an external drive, but rather as a sub-directory of a "mobile device", so I get similar errors. All other directories are fine, and most of my installed , configured software resides on this drive, along with a lot of data (I've got all that backed up to the desktop computer). I also removed some files from other directories to make some room just in case this was complicating things.
Is there some utility that will let me make an end-run around this and just delete the directory and its contents? I really don't want to format the entire drive and start over from nothing.
TIA for any advice!
-avi
Remove corrupted directory from internal flash drive checkout following link for more details.
This won't help.
As stated above, only the removable micro SD card can bee seen as a true external flash drive, not the intenal memory.
The only solution would be a Windows Mobile tool similar to Scandisk.
Now you really can't find anything to solve your problem, you can still backup all your data and hard reset your device : it should set it back clean.
I kind of concluded that myself. Just hoping someone knows of that elusive utility that will let me work on the drive as if it were a regular removable drive. I REALLY don't want to go the formatting route.