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Guest Mr.Clean
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Ok, so I was trying to copy a movie to my storage card. I connected the phone to the computer and selected explore from ActiveSync. I dragged the .avi file from my computer to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Videos folder on the phone. It acts like it's copying and it displays a progress bar. After a minute or two, the progress bar just starts over from the beginning and it never copies the movie. Eventually, I just hit the cancel button.

So, I launch WMP on my computer and try to use that to sync the movie to the phone. It gets 6% complete and just hangs up! So, I cancel that too and unplug the phone and power cycle it to start fresh. When the phone comes back on, I notice the it's only showing 150M free on my card. Before I started, I had 350M free. So I'm thinking it must have copied the movie after all!

Much to my dismay, I can't find the movie anywhere on the card! What happened to the missing 200M? Anybody ever seen anything like that before? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Guest The Doctor
Posted
Ok, so I was trying to copy a movie to my storage card. I connected the phone to the computer and selected explore from ActiveSync. I dragged the .avi file from my computer to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Videos folder on the phone. It acts like it's copying and it displays a progress bar. After a minute or two, the progress bar just starts over from the beginning and it never copies the movie. Eventually, I just hit the cancel button.

So, I launch WMP on my computer and try to use that to sync the movie to the phone. It gets 6% complete and just hangs up! So, I cancel that too and unplug the phone and power cycle it to start fresh. When the phone comes back on, I notice the it's only showing 150M free on my card. Before I started, I had 350M free. So I'm thinking it must have copied the movie after all!

Much to my dismay, I can't find the movie anywhere on the card! What happened to the missing 200M? Anybody ever seen anything like that before? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

I've had a few incidents like this before, normally when copying files like you, unfortunately you'll have to reformat your SD card to get your 200Mb back :)

Phil

Guest Mr.Clean
Posted
I've had a few incidents like this before, normally when copying files like you, unfortunately you'll have to reformat your SD card to get your 200Mb back :)

Phil

Ah, crap... I was afraid that may be the case after spending a few minutes cleaning up various files on the card and still coming up 200M short. I guess that means I'll have to download all the various apps I have installed on the card all over again...

Oh the joys of using a Microsoft product!

Guest Confucious
Posted

AS is very slow and not good at handling large files - invest a few dollars in a card reader - it will be a lot faster and more reliable. Then just copy the whole of your card onto your PC, reformat the card and copy everything back. Hopefully It should be OK.

HTH

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