[bookport] Re: firmware and error checking

  • From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:24:49 -0500

this means that you had lost clusters on the card. Basicly , this is data
that is present, but is not accounted for in the list of files.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <matneyar@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:41 AM
Subject: [bookport] firmware and error checking


> Hello list,
>
> I have admin rights on my XP machine. When I install the beta, would that
result in the machine's scanning the card? I
> guess my card had some unfortunate file fragments on it. This morning, I
found a folder called found.000 with about 5100
> (No, that is not a typo, I do mean 5100) .chk files in the folder. I
happened to find this folder because I put the file in a
> card reader. It said it was created yesterday afternoon, and this was when
I installed beta 27.
>
> This folder was taking up over 100mb on my card. Could this have been
caused by the fact that the firmware update
> activated the error-checking utility? If so, this might cause some people
to get "card full" errors, even when they know
> the card is not full.
>
> Of course, hopefully, not many people would have that many file fragments
that resulted in .chk files! I'm not sure how
> that all happened.
>
> Angie
>
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