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dmaul1114 · 03-15-2009, 04:56 PM

Yeah, that's what they said, the files either got corrupted by the SD card (but probably not as I had none of the files on the SD card and didn't do anything with it), or I unplugged it once without disconnecting first or something.

Sucks as one of the Amazon books not showing up was one the old owner left on their that I was reading, so I'll have to pay for it to finish it. :-( Crap, I knew I shouldn't have played around with anything before finishing that book!

Anyway, as per the earlier post, just checked the card while in the Kindle and hooked up USB and it was FAT rather than FAT32 so maybe that had something to do with it. Formatting it to FAT32 now. Probably unecessary as when I tried copying everything to the SD card it was fine reading the non-corrupted books off the SD card already. But better safe than sorry I guess

Doubt that will fix anything since it looks like those files are dead. So I'll just buy American Lion myself so I can finish it ($9.99 down the tubes) and delete all the 0KB files and redownload everything and hope that it's good to go in the future.

03-15-2009, 04:56 PM	#8
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	Yeah, that's what they said, the files either got corrupted by the SD card (but probably not as I had none of the files on the SD card and didn't do anything with it), or I unplugged it once without disconnecting first or something. Sucks as one of the Amazon books not showing up was one the old owner left on their that I was reading, so I'll have to pay for it to finish it. :-( Crap, I knew I shouldn't have played around with anything before finishing that book! Anyway, as per the earlier post, just checked the card while in the Kindle and hooked up USB and it was FAT rather than FAT32 so maybe that had something to do with it. Formatting it to FAT32 now. Probably unecessary as when I tried copying everything to the SD card it was fine reading the non-corrupted books off the SD card already. But better safe than sorry I guess Doubt that will fix anything since it looks like those files are dead. So I'll just buy American Lion myself so I can finish it ($9.99 down the tubes) and delete all the 0KB files and redownload everything and hope that it's good to go in the future. Last edited by dmaul1114; 03-15-2009 at 05:20 PM.