Storage Card2 problem in WM5?

[Guest Bunu]

I have a qtek 8310 smartphone with a 2Gb memory card which has been working great...until now. The other day I removed the card to use in my camera while still using my phone minus the card.

Once I re-installed the memory card, my phone now sees it as Storage Card2. I suspect that since I had my phone set up to cache my IE and other files on the card, when the phone was without the card it created a new directory called Storage Card.

The problem I have is that I can't get rid of the new Storage Card directory or rename it - meaning that all of my programs on my real card can't be accessed using my current setup.

I read an earlier post that recommended renaming the new "Storage Card" directory to "Storage Card." . This tip sort of worked. It did allow me to rename the directory, but when I re-booted the phone I now have three directories - "Storage Card", "Storage Card.", and "Storage Card2".

I just want to use the software stored on my actual card, and ensure that emails and temp files can be stored on my card. Is there a fix to this problem, or are there tips for working around the problem? I must confess to being fairly dumb when it comes to regedits and getting under the hood of these devices.

Any help is sincerely appreciated!!!!!

[Guest Tech]

its natural behavior...it happens to me as well, when you do the whole email to storage card registry edit :D

[Guest notaliberal]

This hasn't happended to me in a few days ( :D ), after I moved the bulk of my programs to the main storage. But I read that it is directly linked to using the message plugin on the homescreen. If you have the homescreen plugin that shows any of your messages, text, MMS, or email, you'll have the potential of running into this occasionally.

What i always do is this, as you've read before:

rename "Storage Card" to "Storage Card." <-- period at the end

reboot

as long as it didn't happen AGAIN, now you'll have "Storage Card" and "Storage Card." - just delete the one with the period. This can't be done until after reboot though, which forces the mail tool to let go of the files there.

If it doesn't find the storage card soon enough after the above reboot, thats when you'll see "Storage Card", "Storage Card." and "Storage Card2". Basically just try again. Rename it with two periods at the end (cuz you already have one with one period), or a different character. Reboot, try to delete these again.

If you can't get past it, consider removing the message plugin from your homescreen. That shold stop it all together. Not very cool though, it's a useful plugin!!

Good luck,

Jeff

[Guest Bunu]

Many thanks! I think the key tip was to be persistent. When I did the exact same thing after reading your post, all is back to normal.

I'm now curious about how often this happens to other owners and why. This is the first time I had the problem and I'm pretty sure it was because I used my phone minus storage card despite it being configured to store stuff on the card such as IE files and email, and running papyrus/facade.

Should I expect this problem to happen in the future?

Cheers!

[Guest notaliberal]

Hard to say. It's really rather random.

I haven't had it happen for quite a while now, but I fully expect it to do it sooner or later.

I think putting most of my main programs on the main storage (rather than the card) helped somewhat, as i don't think I've had it happen more than once (if at all) since I did that. Not a very good solution though, I'm down to 4M main storage, so I can't install anything else there now...

Good luck,