Dear Jean, My name is Stephan, I am the guy that did the software for your Milestone 311. From what you describe, the following happened: When you first put Milestone on the PC, it was set to internal memory. So you see this internal, small memory of 28MB only, instead of the SD card. Furthermore, it is correct that Milestone does not react to key inputs while connected to a PC, since it cannot be that two devices (the PC and the Milestone) have altering access to the same memory media at the same time. Therefore, Milestone had to be needed to be unplugged from the PC, switched to a mode where the external memory becomes visible (e.g., MP3 player or "memory card voice recorder"), and then put back on to the PC. Actually, the M1 to M5 folders are those from the voice recorder - either on the internal memory or on the SD card. Therefore, it is possible to have two times M1 to M5, but on a different media. You have the following 3 choices of putting your MP3 files: 1) Put them within any of the folders M1 to M5 on the internal memory. If you put them in any folder (that you created yourself) in the internal memory or in the root directory, they can't be accessed by Milestone, since in the internal memory only the voice recorder is active (and it works in those 5 folders only). 2) Put them within any of the folders M1 to M5 on the SD card. You can access them in the "memory card voice recorder" mode. 3) Put them anywhere on the SD card. You can access them with the "MP3 player" mode, throught navigation with the left, right, upper and lower button. Now, what makes me suspicious is that you say you have this squelchy beep when connecting Milestone to the PC. Are the other messages still ok? For instance, when you press the lower X button for about 3 seconds, does Milestone start to give out proper status messages? If not, we need to reinstall the language package. This can easily done by email - just tell me. You cannot make an SD card unreadable by formatting it - be it with a card reader or directly by Milestone. And for the moment, you can forget about the "auto file" thing (AUTONEXT.YES) described in the instruction manual. That comes later. Please try again, with the insights from above. It must work. Best regards, Stephan Am 21.06.2007 um 02:43 schrieb Jean Menzies: It was so quiet, I wasn't sure if anyone was home. Smile. Okay. I bought the Milestone last fall but admit I haven't had time to really play with it. Now I want to start using it seriously, and my first attempt was to put an audio book composed of MP3 files onto an SD card and try and play it in the Milestone. But it didn't work. I used Windows Explorer to copy the files to the SD card in a card reader, but I don't think that was right. I couldn't seem to navigate to the SD card when the card was in the Milestone connected to the PC with the USB cable. I saw the m1 to m5 folders, but I thought that was the main memory. I did reformat the SD card once it was in the card reader, so I don't know if that made it unreadable. And now when I plug the Milestone into the PC I don't get the device connect message but only hear a squelchy beep. I'm not normally this stupid with devices. Honest. Smile. How do I get back to square one and properly put a long book of MP)3 files on an SD card? The manual talked about setting this up on the PC first with an auto file of some kind but I don't know what to do. Yes, I read the manual twice. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Baars" <derekbaars@xxxxxxxxx> To: <milestone311@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: Re: milestone311 testing > This list is still functional. How can we help? > > On 6/20/07, Jean Menzies <jemenzies@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just seeing if this list is actually alive. I'm a new member and need >> some >> help. >> Jean >> >> > >