Hi,
A number of questions and pointers:
* How old is your unit? Is it older than two years? There might
be hardware issue, but since there is so much discrepancy between
the "expected" and "actual" free space, there might be some flash
sectors that might have gone bad. However, given your situation,
I don't think it is hardware related yet.
* Have you checked the root of your Flash Disk? By default, if
you "delete" Flash files, you'll delete files contained in all
folders except "None," which is the root of your disk. From
file manager, go to directory, then select Flash Disk and type
"none" (in computer braille) and press ENTER. This should show
you the files on the none folder. Then press SPACE with X to
show hidden files, then go through your files (and tell us what's
in there). Delete the files you don't need.
* If you've backed up your files to a card such as CompactFlash
and SD card, have you checked your backup folder size either on
your mPower or on your computer (via a card reader)? This should
give you a clue as to the size of your backup, which should be
around 50 MB.
* And yes, there's no Flash format functionality on the mPower -
only SD cards of certain size can be formatted. And no,
BACKSPACE with R on Apex restores default Flash files which are
missing from the actual drive - it is the other command that
formats everything. As mentioned before, don't do these commands
unless advised by HumanWare.
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: Marvin Vasquez <[email protected]
To: BN List <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:35:03 +1200
Subject: [Braillenote] Missing free space on flash disk
Hello, list. I was looking through my flash disk, and I had a
feeling that what was there shouldn't be taking up as much space
as the bn says it is. So, I backed everything up, got rid of
everything on the flash disk, and checked the free space.
The bn tells me there are 70 point something megs free, and the
disk size is somewhere around 120 megs.
What I can't figure out is what's taking up some 50 megs of
space, and how to get rid of it. I have tried all manner of
resets, and I just finished reinstalling keysoft version 8, and
the space is still not available on the flash disk. Does
anyone know of any way to force an mPower to, I don't know,
format the flash disk or something? I know apex users can hit
backspace with r from support information mode, but we mPower
users can't do that. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
------------------
Marvin Vasquez
Email sent from my BrailleNote mPower BT running Keysoft version
8: build 21
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