Virus, flakey software or SD card problem ?

[Guest Stabilo]

Using an M600 with a 1GB Viking SD card

On Sunday I installed Agile Messenger, all went well.

Yesterday I made a couple of registry mods (GPRS timer and GPS icon in settings per Wiki WM5 registry changes). Again all went well.

Left the PPC on Monday night and this morning it had locked up.

Not too worried at this point as PPC's do lock up (like PC's in the early 90's).

Soft reset and all hell let loose, after all it is the devils day today (6/6/6). Today screen missing lots of loaded software, Smartskey not working, Agile Messenger not running etc etc.

When I checked the SD card half of my programs AND ALL MY BACKUP files were gone. It will take me hours to set up the PPC again. But before I do can anyone explain what happened to the files on the SD card?

As it is 6/6/6 I can't help thinking it's the devils work but perhaps it's somethine less sinister.

[Guest Stabilo]

Bit more information.

I checked with file explorer and even put the SD card in a card reader and half my files 'had' gone, not just in program files dir of SD card. I started to copy some files from PC to PPC and suddenly all the files reappeared EXCLUDING the ones in program files. At least all my backups from the root directory have not been lost. I have now made a copy of the program files directory and transferred my backups to PC. Strangely I have some files TWICE on the PPC, EXACTLY the same name, extension etc. This is from copying the files from the PC when they were already on the SD card (albeit invisible at the time). Deleted some of the duplicates and it only removes one copy.

Any idea why the files can disappear and reappear? Really bad news when program dir gets wiped. I have been given a tip to remove the SD during soft resets.

[Guest Rances]

You allways have to remove sd card when (hard/soft) resetting your pda!

[Guest mandt]

Why do you say that? I always soft reset my vario without removing the card and have never had a problem. I'm sure many others here do the same

[Guest Stabilo]

Why do you say that? I always soft reset my vario without removing the card and have never had a problem. I'm sure many others here do the same

I agree.

100 soft resets on Blue Angel, Wizard & Prophet with SD in place without any problems (until Monday). Also some of my startup progs are on the card so it really needs to be in place on reset.

[Guest Mr_Blonde1971]

The same for me, many soft reset with SD card in, no problems.

When I changed to a 1Gb card in my M500 the card would not work properly untill it had been used in the by the PPC and then formatted in a card reader, it was starting programs from the card when it wanted to, After a format all seems well (few days ago now)