Woke up this morning to find that my Program Files folder on my SD card had been duplicated. Each night I do have a schedules backups with PIM Backup and SpriteBackup. I did have some folders that their names had been garbled. I did a reset and those disappeared but The Program File had been duplicated.
I have tried to the delete the entire folder, but I keep getting a sharing violation. Being to wonder if I need to uninstall via Remove Programs.
What is strange is that when I view the SD Card using Total Commander, there is only 1 Program Files Folder.
Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Todd
Try copying all the files off with a card reader (just in case something goes wrong) and run an error check on the card. I've had problems with a duplicate of Program Files and disappearing folders, and error checking the card almost always solves it.
Dave
Error Check?
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
Try copying all the files off with a card reader (just in case something goes wrong) and run an error check on the card. I've had problems with a duplicate of Program Files and disappearing folders, and error checking the card almost always solves it.
Dave
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Thanks Dave,
How do you run an error check on the card?
(I'm assuming you have a PC, and that your card is in a reader and accessible from the PC) Go to "My Computer" and right click on your card, then select properties. Then go to the "Tools" tab, and click the error checking button. Check all the boxes, and run the scan. It may take a while with a larger card.
Dave
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
(I'm assuming you have a PC, and that your card is in a reader and accessible from the PC) Go to "My Computer" and right click on your card, then select properties. Then go to the "Tools" tab, and click the error checking button. Check all the boxes, and run the scan. It may take a while with a larger card.
Dave
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Thank you sir. Will have to try this when I get home.
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When I go to Active Sync and click Explore, I get a folder view that confuses me! There is no C: drive and I know there is two types of storage on my HTC Touch Diamond.
What is the My Windows Mobile-Based Device folder? If I double click that, I can see a list of folders, one of which says Internal Storage. Is that the 4MB of memory that the Diamond has? Or am I confused!
Thanks,
Jon
There is no 4MB memory but the internal memory is 4GB.
Yes, Internal Storage has 4GB
So does that mean the forlder called Internal Storage is the 4GB of internal memory?
Yes .
Remember that the folder is invisible while the Diamond is connected to the PC.
Thanks guys!
karlth said:
Remember that the folder is invisible while the Diamond is connected to the PC.
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Only when connecting your phone as a disk drive. In active sync it remains visible.
I notice that a system file for a program has this:
[folders]
app="%SDCARD%/program"
If I want to store it in the internal storage folder, what do I change the %SDCARD% to?
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I notice that a system file for a program has this:
[folders]
app="%SDCARD%/program"
If I want to store it in the internal storage folder, what do I change the %SDCARD% to?
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Iternal storage, but it is language sensitive, so you use the name displayed in the TD file manager.
if it's for iGO8 you don't need to do it just get the 8.0.0.44366 update and install
easiest way to determine which folder it is is to unplug the diamond and go to file explorer to rood folder
you will see a small sd card sign by the name of the folder,and that's the one,doesn't matter in which language,icon is the same
So %SDCARD% doesn't automatically look for any SD card on your device?
farukb said:
if it's for iGO8 you don't need to do it just get the 8.0.0.44366 update and install
easiest way to determine which folder it is is to unplug the diamond and go to file explorer to rood folder
you will see a small sd card sign by the name of the folder,and that's the one,doesn't matter in which language,icon is the same
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How just to get this update? And should you know how to get the camera file, please include this as well. Thanks
Why is it when i download a file on my PC from the net i can't save it directly to my storage card?
Thanks,
Chuck
sinclac said:
Why is it when i download a file on my PC from the net i can't save it directly to my storage card?
Thanks,
Chuck
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I misread that. Retracting my retarded advice
Dave
You can't save files to the phone with ActiveSync. If you want to save it directly to the card use a reader or a utility like WM5torage.
You can, if..
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You can, if you take the storage card out of the phone, put it in a card reader and plug that into your computer.. Then it should recognize as a mass-storage device and you can save directly to it!
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Not flaming, just being silly. The last poster answered your question.
Thanks guy for the Help, i just need to change my way of thinking.
Actually you can do it directly through the phone. The trick is to copy and paste the files in instead of dragging and dropping. It works fine for me.
-J
Yep, I second that - I'm using XP (dunno if it's different in Vista?) but you should have a 'Mobile Device' under the 'Other' category in Windows Explorer?
Just open this up like any other drive, you will see your My Documents folder in your system memory, double click on 'My Windows Mobile Based Device' to get to your phone's system memory root, you should then see a 'Storage Card' folder which you can then copy and paste to / from just as you would with any other folder...
all the cabs and programs I've uploaded from here all say "The file _______ cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file." Now I understand what it says, but I havent moved, edited, or deleted any files/folders off my device. I'm going to reinstall all of it, but anyone have any idea why this would happen?
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all the cabs and programs I've uploaded from here all say "The file _______ cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file." Now I understand what it says, but I havent moved, edited, or deleted any files/folders off my device. I'm going to reinstall all of it, but anyone have any idea why this would happen?
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Did you install them to the SD card? Have you looked to see if they're installed? Most programs install to (root)\Program Files where (root) is the device or the SD card.
I suspect you installed them to the SD card and the SD card has a problem.
That, or you uninstalled several programs in a row and ran into the bug I see all the time where it doesn't remove what you expect it to, but in that case you wouldn't have shortcuts in the start menu (but you certainly could in other programs where you set it yourself).
There is a setting in Advanced Config to automaticly delete cabs after beeing installed, have you checked this?
i havent, but I'm glad I still had the cabs on my device as I just reinstalled them. If they werent on there, I would had needed to find them again...
This problem drove me crazy for two weeks. I decided to try to copy the contents of the SD card to my hard drive and then reformat the card.
While copying the SD card, I kept getting an error. I eventually figured out the Program files folder on the card has some corrupted files or folders.
I copied everything except the Program Files folder to my hard drive, reformatted the card, copied everything back to the SD card and reinstalled the cabs.
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This problem drove me crazy for two weeks. I decided to try to copy the contents of the SD card to my hard drive and then reformat the card.
While copying the SD card, I kept getting an error. I eventually figured out the Program files folder on the card has some corrupted files or folders.
I copied everything except the Program Files folder to my hard drive, reformatted the card, copied everything back to the SD card and reinstalled the cabs.
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I have had this too. Twice in fact.
First time it was the My Documents folder of the SD card. Just a few days ago, the Program Files folder was affected. Soluation was to open the SD card directly from the PC thro the SD card slot, recover the files and reformat/ copy.
Lesson learnt: Always keep a copy of important SD card contents on your PC/laptop. I do, now. At 8GB, it doesn't matter much on my laptop.
Ok so I started noticing that the songs on my storage card weren't all showing up on Media Player.... only some of them. I refreshed the library, and still only a couple more showed up.
So I popped up Resco file explorer to look at things... wtf? I have a Device folder called "Storage Card", and another folder with the storage card logo called "Storage Card2". In both are what look to be attachment storages.
How do I resolve this? I removed the card but I can't seem to delete the "Storage Card" local folder.
Oh and File Manager doesn't work at all
remove the sd card and soft reset the phone
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I have a Device folder called "Storage Card", and another folder with the storage card logo called "Storage Card2". In both are what look to be attachment storages.
How do I resolve this? I removed the card but I can't seem to delete the "Storage Card" local folder.
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My storage card likes to rename itself to Storage Card2 in the wiki covers this. Never had it happen to me personally but then I always take the card out when the device is powered off.
DO you solve this? the card2 appears when you have removed it and put it back again.
it recognizes it as card2. What I did was to back up, then remove card and erased card2. it worked to me.
I searched the forums but could'nt find a similar problem. My SD card is read by my phone. But when i connect it to the computer through USB storage, only a few folders are seen(lost.dir, buildprop.tmp, .profig.os) along with any new folders that i create. But while browsing the card through a file explorer on my phone i can see all the files and folders. Anyone know what's wrong??
Try to put it in a card reader and see what happends.
Hey
I bought a sd card from eBay and had countless errors and trouble with it, I bought a new sd and had no issue what so ever. So try a new sd card or even formatt the memory card
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See if you can back the contents up to the pc then run disk check or format.
Formatting at the moment is not an option. I have a lot of data on it that needs to be backed up like photos, videos, music etc. Unfortunately i cant backup the contents onto the PC since they cant be seen! Guess i have to upload everything onto dropbox and then format it. And with my current upload speed its going to take days . Unless there's someother way of doing it
Try doing a backup using a card reader for your pc.
Even with a card Reader only the "New" folders that i create can be seen. But on the phone All the folders can be seen.
Have you tried to connect it with Linux based OS or only with Windows?
Try this also. Currently there's a troyan round the globe. When it activates it hides all the folders on external media devices connected to PC, and creates .exe files with names of hidden folders. When you connect your storage to a PC with good antivirus it deletes .exe files but leaves folders on storage in hidden state. Try to configure your Windows Explorer or Total Commander to show hidden files and folders and maybe you'll be lucky.
Only with Windows XP and 7 based systems as im at a cousin's place. Found this problem when he wanted some songs from my card. I did scan the SD card using AVG. During the scan i noticed that the current files being scanned included those that i couldn't see using windows/commander file explorer. Hope that helps
Edit: A little messing around and i got it!! Folder Options > Hidden Files and Folders > Unchecked "Hide Protected Operating System Files"
Thank you for all your help