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Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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The thing is, these weird files aren't on the SD card, they're in the Freda program section of the PDA's memory. My suspicion is that they were created when I had that problem of the card itself showing up as SD Card2, and a folder called "SD Card" appeared in the program section of main memory. (I
think Freda may have created that folder when it went looking for the Temp folder on the SD card and only found SD Card2.)
So unless there's some intimate connection between the file system on the card and the PDA's memory, I don't think that's going to do it. Although there's no harm in trying, I suppose.
Question is, what do I do if there's corruption on the PDA? If it's localized to the one folder, is there a way to force a delete of the folder?