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Formatting your Disk may just be the solution
Was having some serious problems with my music collection on the phone and after a couple of days of fiddling here and there I pulled the MicroSD out, plugged into the Laptop and …
Format solved the problem.
Before formatting the MicroSD I took a look around and sure enough there was a directly with a funny label implying that it was used by my phone for something, and the files inside that directory was full squiggly funny little characters (hint: good indicator of a disk corruption)
I wanted to trash the disk anyway, for a clean slate set up.
The problems I was having were Windows Mobile Pocket Edition (whatever version) would index my music 1,000+ songs, but I couldn’t get a song listed at all. Meanwhile, if I open the file by double-clicking it in Explorer it would happily play the song.
The 2nd problem, when I listed the categories/genres it would have some old genres that I had long excommunicated from my desktop. Deleting the music files and re-copying the music hadn’t helped, so there was obviously a collection of knowledge somewhere else storing this old outdated information.
I guess I could have just deleted that “metadata” folder, but while I was there, it was just as sweet to wipe the whole thing and feel refreshed with the new start.
The phone really is a computer.
Solution #1. Reboot
Solution #2. Format
I know people have been rebooting their iPhones, I wonder how you wipe stuff ?
I’m tickled happy I got a phone that supported microSD storage, I bought and 8GB card to go with my 2GB (which O4 got for her phone) and the 1GB stick that came with the phone. 32GB has been publicly announced (the design limit for this particular phone.)
I can upgrade by just buying a card, too cool (obviously waiting for the price to be practical, and my collection to become unmanageable.)
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