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Originally Posted by starrigger
The names of the folders are odd distortions of names of books, folders, and even of Kovid:
e_Starda.nce
__Spider
bre.kovi.dgo
SD.ard
It's pretty strange. Can I safely delete these folders, as long as they are empty?
EDIT: I just tapped on one called "Booksplash," and I got an apparent image of a book's text page--in the picture viewer. Several of them are listed as being over a GB. (Which is more than the memory in the device.)
ANOTHER EDIT: A lot of these files and folders are dated in the years 2028 and 2035. They're from the future! (I wonder if they contain stock prices.)
And they're all locked and I can't delete them. I wonder if I should uninstall, scrub, and reinstall Freda.
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This sounds very much like the file system on your card is badly corrupted. The folders and data storage areas are intertwined, so that writing to a file also writes to some folders. In this case, uninstalling and reinstalling won't fix anything, and will probably make it worse.
Try the following:
1) Ensure no program that might try to look at the card (like calibre) is running on your computer.
2) Plug the card into your computer/card reader
3) Backup any files on the card that you want to keep to somewhere on your computer. Why? Step 5 might 'fix' many things into a black hole.
4) Right-click on the drive letter, select properties, then tools, then push the button that checks for errors.
5) Check the 'automatically fix errors' checkbox
and let it rip.
Alternatively, and more certain, reformat the card. Do this only after backing up (sorry for stating the obvious). The format option should be available when you right-click the drive letter.