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Missing memory -- Help!
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Posted by: closeshave2

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...

Posted by: gregski

I don't know why it does that, but I have loaded many movies on my card and they all download that way. Just leave it be and let it do its thing. It takes a couple of minutes, but it will transfer. For some reason it just looks like its starting over a few times. As far as the missing memory, it may just be an incomplete avi file. Do you have your settings to show hidden files? If not, try that. It may be there.

Posted by: conan_troutman

try using a card reader for faster transfers if like me your a bit impatient.

Posted by: phonuzer

A card reader/writer is the way to go; as the above have pointed out - be patient, large transfers do take some time.

Sometimes a storage card will lose half of its capacity after deleting, stopping transfer(s), etc - this is not unusual; there are at least three programs out there to regain space lost on 2GB cards.

In addition, some reader/writers (older) do not work well with some cards.
You may need to format the card (Fat or Fat16) to regain space.
Some state that you can format to Fat32 and even partition a card but search and read throughout HoFo first.

Good Luck.