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1gb sd card will not hold 1gb of data

Sep 12, 2006 2:49AM PDT

I recently bought a 1gb PNY sd flash memory card. I use a GE 10 in 1 card reader.

I am trying to out 1 gig of music on the sd card, but it will only hold 545 mb. It's showing that I have over 400 mb remaining.

When I try to add more files it says..

"error copying file or folder"
"cannot create or replace "file name" "the directory or file cannot be created."


I know that some of the sd card disk space is needed for formatting etc, but 400MB seems excessive.

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Let's say the drive letter is G:
Sep 12, 2006 3:45AM PDT

Where did you put the files? In G:\ ? If so then you may only place so many files there due to filesystem limits. If you made a subdirectory then that limit is removed.

Bob

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figured it out
Sep 12, 2006 5:28AM PDT

I put the files in the root, and apparently that's a no-no if you want to use the whole SD card... I created a sub-directoty named "music" and that did the trick. I was able to use the entire disk.

Thank you for your help.