Just got a new card, but every time I copy the backup of my old card to it, it erases all the picture files during media scan. Is there a way to stop that from happening?
Did you try formatting the card through the phone settings menu, then copying the pictures seperately from everything else to the new DCIM\Camera folder the phone created?
DroidApprentice said:
Did you try formatting the card through the phone settings menu, then copying the pictures seperately from everything else to the new DCIM\Camera folder the phone created?
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Yeah, then any time media scanner runs the photos are gone. Like completely.
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Yeah, then any time media scanner runs the photos are gone. Like completely.
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Did you try copying them elsewhere on the card, say the Downloads folder or something? No clue if that'd make any difference but just a thought if you hadn't tried it.
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Did you try copying them elsewhere on the card, say the Downloads folder or something? No clue if that'd make any difference but just a thought if you hadn't tried it.
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It's like it deletes them from their individual directories. I'm going to try to copy them from one card to the other in hopes that maybe by putting them on my hard drive it was causing some conversion that won't happen this way.
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"Photo Storage Card Inserted".
Every single time I reboot.
I loathe it.
do you have a photo folder on the card from an old digital camera? if so re format the card or delete the folder
I read this problem on one of the reviews, cant remember the solution but if you google it you will find the answer
Morituri said:
do you have a photo folder on the card from an old digital camera? if so re format the card or delete the folder
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Yup, still use this SD card in my wee canon camera... not rich enough for a 2 or 4gb dedicated SD yet!
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Yes, tried googling it, found zilch...
Yes, it's probably the existence of the DCIM folder that triggers this event.
I just did a cursory check, and there doesn't seem to be a setting for this under the standard Pictures & Videos app.
Deleting or renaming this folder will stop this message popping up
Do you have any third party application installed related to viewing pictures like SPB Imageer or Resco Viewer?
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Yes, it's probably the existence of the DCIM folder that triggers this event.
I just did a cursory check, and there doesn't seem to be a setting for this under the standard Pictures & Videos app.
Deleting or renaming this folder will stop this message popping up
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Can't really delete the folder - use the sd card in my camera all the time.... i'll just have to buy a decated xda card....
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Using Resco Viewer, but still get the message popping up after even a hard reset...
i just got my storage card nuked and i think it was by "save attachments on storage card" .. its cleanswept except for some attachment dir and a WMDRM dir.. anyone experienced this before?
Im curious if there is a way to save my storage card like file recovery for windows!?!? I've had smartphone for 2 years and never experienced such (nor used the mail portion) .. its really a drag if this is normal wm5 behavior.
anyways two questions:
- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to car? (so called quick formats)
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- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
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Backup apps:
SPB Backup - www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/?en
Sunnysoft Backup Manager - www.sunnysoft.cz/en_clanek.php?clanekid=51
Sprite Backup - www.spritesoftware.com/pocketpc.php
Or, otherwise, copy all files over, and export the registry using Tascal Registry Editor or so. Restoring would likely be iffy, though.. e.g. overwriting the Pocket Outlook database and such - if it can be done.
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- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to card? (so called quick formats)
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Yes - there's dedicated software for this. I got one from Sandisk that came with their 1GB Ultra III compactflash card that I've got in my camera next to a 2GB memorystick.
http://www.lc-tech.com/software/rprowindetail.html
as for the nuking, I assume now it was something todo with windows mediea player and device syncronization which hadnt fully initiated ..
anyways, when you tlak of recovery what do you mean, as the link you post leads to pc software.
u put sd card in camera and mount as usb and run pc software to recover?
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.
I just had the exact same thing happen to me...was just left with the attachments directory.
The good news is that the SD card shows that there is 250MB used so i know the files are there...i just cant see them. I'm trying that SD program referenced in the last post to see if i can at least see the files.
Unfortunately, all my backups are on the SD card itself. I hadnt copied them to my HD.
wow, this is nuts - there's some serious bug lurking around!
Update on this.
I was able to recover the files with some data recovery tools. The one in this thread is useless - its meant for media files only.
I still wonder why this happened. Either way, I'm switching back Outlook attachments to main memory for a bit and see what happens.
d'oh
Well, let us know which data recovery tool you used - might come in handy for others
yup same thing happened to me... and same way, attachments on storage card
space was still missing but the files were too
didnt bother recovering though as i had backups luckily
The same happened to me twice! The first time I thought it was due to FAT FS, so i reformated it with FAT32, but it happened again.
I do have my attachements at SD, as well as I save pictures from camera to it.
BTW, the same thing happened once with my wife's iPaq 2490 (attachement at SD).
As for fixing: just use standard MS Windows checkdsk (or use Check now from drive options) if you have a card reader. It saves all files to FOUND directory (but, unfortunately, it renames it to strange names, so you'll have to find out what is what)
If this happens to you, FinalData Enterprise and EasyRecovery Pro are known to recover files very well. They will find all files and filenames. They wont restore the top level folder names but if you dont have many, you can change them yourself. More important to me were the lower level filenames and the integrity of those files.
Most of the other trial recovery programs i used couldnt do what these two products could. They typically just showed a bunch of .chk files or else tried to recover media files only.
I still want to know how this happened and if there's a way to replicate the problem. There's some nasty Outlook bug lurking around that needs to be fixed!
same thing happened to me. just realised that i have 300 meg os missing disk space that i thought had gone for ever.
can anyone recommend a freeware tool ?
Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?
I know the ones i mentioned earlier should work.
Someone said chkdsk may work...try that although i worry that if it recovers cross linked files (most of them are), it'll dump a bunch of useless chk files on the card.
i tried checkdisk and it didn't seem to retrieve any files. grrrrrrrrr.
Well maybe it s a bug which occurs on march 14.... because that same thing occured to my sd yesterday while I was using tt5 on the road... ;(
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as for the nuking,.....bla bla.....
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.
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I'd choose SPB Backup. According to my knowledge the WM5 compatible version of Sprite Backup does not have the self extracting functionallity yet. (weird because that among other features made Sprite Backup stand tall above all other backup/clone solutions).
Hope they will include this self extracting feature soon.
2 GIG Mini SD Speed
Just got mine from Singapore yesterday. I did not format it as it came already formatted. I have noticed that playing video divx / mpg1's are very slow versus internal memory. I did the reg edits for cache size but found no real changes to media playback. Anyone out there playing with media playback on a Cingular 8125?
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Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?
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From experiance with this same issue on a 1gb, the card eventually starts having block failures. Fortunatly the place I bought it replaced it with another. Whatever nukes it, perminatly damaged mine. Hope in your case it didn't damage it.
I'm wondering if this is related to the reboot issue some of us are experiancing... and if it has something to do with pocket outlook or pocket windows media player 10.
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Block failures are a hardware fault.
The only way you could induce one with software would be to rewrite the same location more than ~1m times, which would cause it to fail - flash has a limited lifetime, although the limit is very high.
So let me get this straight:
REGARDLESS of the BRAND of the miniSD card, the Wizard HAVE an ISSUE whereby, if MEssaging Attachement is saved to the card, the device CAN RANDOMLY nuke the card?
I haave the same issue with my ATP miniSD card (and they're considered one of the most reliable one), but instead of nuking it, it just doesn't show the file OR...worst... rename the card to "Storage CArd 2".
Depends on what people are running into.
If you're getting a corrupted card BUT you can reformat it, then it may be something with the storage card attachment thing. (I personally run with this turned on and have NOT had it happen)
If, however, the card CANNOT be reformatted - that is, its TOAST - then its NOT a software problem. The card has physically failed. Since the 2GB cards are quite new, this is entirely possible.
One other possibility - if you have a card that won't reformat first try writing a few kilobytes of zeros to it using psdwrite. If you can THEN reformat it, then the card was scrambled - it did not die.
Using "r2sd" to dump ROM images to the card has been known to interfere with reformatting to full capacity due to the internal data patterns that show up in certain places with certain ROMs. Writing a block of zeros to the front of the card will fix this, as it will wipe the data that is being misinterpreted.
I have recently noticed on the root of my sd card a folder called WMDRM with a file inside with a weird long name. Now I have worked out it is the Windows Media Digital Rights Management folder. I don't have any music on my trinity only a couple of videos of my daughter. Recorded on the trinity. (No bought music) What is this folder all about? Why has it appeared? Can I delete it? Will it just appear again? Will it effect windows media player if I delete it?
Thank's for any info in advance.
Anyone any ideas? Any help would be appreciated!
Windows Media Digital Rights Management - I think it holds copyright information when you play back or build a library using Media Player, even when the content is not protected. Also think it can be used to encrypt media which is being downloaded/streamed.
I'm not sure if you can prevent it being created, but it's safe to delete, although it will be created again when you use Media Player.
If you haven't bought any DRM music/video it's safe to remove. Since WM needs to store the keys that survive a hard reset, it saves it on SD card if it finds one.
Incidentally, there are numerous reports of SD card corruption, usually caused by something written to the SD card.
Therefore, you'd better to use players other than WM...
I've read some posts saying people experienced some problems after deleting this folder.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x30-x3-x3i-forums/111690-window-media-not-working.html
Sounds strange to me but just wanted to point it out.
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I've read some posts saying people experienced some problems after deleting this folder.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x30-x3-x3i-forums/111690-window-media-not-working.html
Sounds strange to me but just wanted to point it out.
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Apparently, you didn't RTFA. It says otherwise.
I've had this before, think it's cured by deleteing the WMDRM folder on your SD/CF card.
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Apparently, you didn't RTFA. It says otherwise.
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Sorry, didn't really read it properly.
But regarding the RTFA.... FU.
So I have searched the forums multiple times and didn't find a solution to this problem. Whenever I take a picture with the camera and have it set save to card it saves it to card then 2 seconds later the picture cannot be found on the card at all. Everything else on the card can be found on the card like music, ect. I have used the SD fix but am still having this issue. Please help. Thanks.
What card are you using? The original or one bought on ie. ebay?
I am using a new 8gb one and everytime a take a picture the photo only stays on the card for a moment then dissapears.
yumite said:
I am using a new 8gb one and everytime a take a picture the photo only stays on the card for a moment then dissapears.
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Apply sdcard fix.
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Use the filemanager and delete the DCIM folder. The camera recreates the folder and you'll be able to save photos to card again.
dicksoft said:
Use the filemanager and delete the DCIM folder. The camera recreates the folder and you'll be able to save photos to card again.
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Great suggestion. This worked for me as well.
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Great suggestion. This worked for me as well.
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X2 does alot of things, and none of them especially good. This i camera/sd card is a problem that i've seen on a number of X2 phones.
I'd like to switch to a larger memory card. I've been playing and saving on my current card, roms played on the native emulator using PSXPeria. Could anyone tell me how I should go about changing cards without losing the saves and settings? I'm not sure if this is possible, or which files I'll need to copy. Would really appreciate any help.
Iam not a expert but i think that you can save the folder "/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/sony.play(...)/saveFOLDER" (the name is not saveFOLDER but you can search and will found it, if you save this files, you can delete the save and use others and if will need to backup it, just paste it back).
Sry bad english thought.
I would just pull everything on the SD into my computer and copy it onto the new card...
Sent from my R800x Super-Emulating-Bring-Your-Childhood-Back Phone
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I would just pull everything on the SD into my computer and copy it onto the new card...
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Thats what i did, when i switched from 8gb to 16gb, havent had any issues.
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I would just pull everything on the SD into my computer and copy it onto the new card...
Sent from my R800x Super-Emulating-Bring-Your-Childhood-Back Phone
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Well, now I feel like an idiot. I can't believe I didn't think of that. ha
Thanks a lot guys.