MP3 player is "full" but has no files on it...

[Laurent Asorne]

On Friday 03 August 2007 00:55:04 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007, Laurent Asorne wrote:
> > When I click on the icon of the MP3 Player in /media/, it already shows
> > that its usage is 99% even before I make any transaction ... Doesn't that
> > mean that the system has infos about this specific device in memory and
> > that this memory only needs to be refreshed or deleted?
>
> I have a Samsung YU-1 player and after a few months of putting files and
> erasing files on it, it tends to have a flakey file system.   For example,
> you put a book on it and when listening, it will run into a 'block' of an
> older book that has been erased.
>
> So I reformat it using Windows and it's good for some more usage.
>
> You might try a format under Linux but I don't trust the Mass storage stuff
> at this point.

I formatted it under Windows and now - oh wonder - it works fine! Thanks for 
the idea! Now I KNOW why I should always keep one Windows computer at 
hand... ;-)

Laurent Asorne

-- 
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
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