Guest w411y Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 I got a 1gb SD in my M1500. In System -> Memory its saying I have used up 291mb and have 680 free! Went into file explorer and only 3 word docs and 1 spreadsheet are saved to the card. Went into Exlporer and looked if there were any hidden files and none there! :?: How can this be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Have you recorded any voicenotes or similar? These can save themselves attached to word/notepad files and use up considerably more space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest w411y Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Nope just checked and none found! This is bizzare, 300mb cant come out of nowhere! anything i can do to wipe the card of everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 isnt it the 1000 bytes is a kilobyte problem? the formatted capacity for 1 gig is about 976meg later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest w411y Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Yep total capacity is 963mb but that doesn't explain how 291mb is used when ive deleted everything off the card and nothing appears when i click show hidden files :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 hmmm...... there is either lost sectors and the card needs a format (always a good idea) or your office documents are using powerpoints magical ability to make a 40k image 8meg :) (i would format the card) later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tech Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 its nothing to do with lost sectors when you format a card/harddrive/floppy/CDRW you will ALWAYS LOOSE a few megabytes/hundred bytes/whatever because that is using it up for it's FAT (to keep a record of all file locations etc....) as for the REAL problem about the word docs.... have you tried to copy them over to your computer, deleting the docs on the miniSD card and then seeing what the size is? after this, can you format it the minSD card using an sd card reader or something? once done, copy the files back over.... whats the total size consumed now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 tech, thats always a fun story drives are sold with sizes in base 10, and computers work in base 2 the storage device manufactures say 1kb is 1000bytes and everyone knows its 1024bytes thats why a 250gig hard disk is only 233gigs and thats also why a 1gig card is 960meg sd card do need formatting everysooften just to remove all the clutter and 'lost' files it doesnt bother cleaning up later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest w411y Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I cut everything off the card and pasted it to the computer and the docs in total were 43kb and there was still 291mb used on the card. Do not have a card reader so installed Flash Format onto my device which also said 291mb was used and that 0 files were on the card. However a format did clear that and pasting the docs back onto the card there is 43kb in use :D Cheers for the help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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