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Mac gives false information about free space on memory card (W800i) |
syff
Joined: Aug 24, 2005
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From: Norway
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Hi,
My mac fails to detect how much free space my 512MB memory card that came with my W800i has got left.
When I first got my phone I used the USB cable and uploaded about 450MB of MP3s to the memory card. Later I decided I wanted some movies instead, and deleted about half of the MP3s. When I tried to drag a couple of newly decoded family guy episodes of about 50MB each to the phone it told me that there was not enough free space to perform the operation.
I've tried everything, but no matter what I do viewing the removable disk's info tells me that there is 48MB free space. I've tried turning off my phone, rebooting OS X, removing the memory card, uninstalling and installing K750iGrabber - nothing works! The MP3 folder is empty, and all the other folders that show up in Finder is no more than 60MB.
I have not been able to connect my memory card to a Windows PC yet. It might turn out that it's the memory card's fault, although I suspect it's a bug in OS X 10.4.2.
Does anyone know what I can do in order to solve this problem? | |
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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This may sound really stupid, but the only thing you haven't mentioned trying is emptying the trash!
Have a look at the 'Mac Stuff' section of my site and try a few of the utilities for deleting the DS_Store and other hidden files from your phone. There may be something hiding on there...
Alternatively try reformatting the Memory Stick...
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syff
Joined: Aug 24, 2005
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From: Norway
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Thank you for your quick reply.
Emptying the trash bin solved my problem! I didn't know OS X kept a local copy of the removed file in the trash bin when deleting from a removable device. It might be me that's stupid, but I find this quite strange and illogic.
Now I'm off to test the Copy Playlist to Card script (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27403) to see if it works as easy as described. Again: thank you very much - you made my day, and night. |
Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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Yeah, when you put a file in the Trash, the Mac OS actually just moves the file to a hiddedn .Trashes folder on the drive/device the file was on. It only acrually deletes it when you Empty Trash. It does this as a safety net, so that its possible to recover files you accidentally delete. Obviously on a Hard Disk with loads of spce you wouldn't notice the space, but on a MS it soon fills up!
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Posted: 2005-08-25 23:57
