Hi,

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I have found that emptying the trash before 
removing the SD card does seem to help with this. I've been using the same SD 
card for 2 or 3 years and this is the first time I've gotten to the point of 
having to format to clear up space.

Gabe


On Dec 4, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Faisal ali <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening? I’ve been copying things 
> over to my card for months now and don’t want to run out of room by phantom 
> files. 
>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Gabe Griffith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As others have said you can put the content on your stream simply by copying 
>> and pasting. However, I have noticed that the mac seems to put hidden files 
>> on the SD card that eventually fill up space. Just a couple of weeks ago I 
>> noticed that I was missing over a gig of space on my 4GB SD card. I couldn't 
>> find the culprits either on my mac or using a windows PC. I finally had to 
>> back up the folders that I had stuff in and then format the SD card using 
>> the stream. Once I did that I copied the folders from my computer back to 
>> the SD card and like magic I had my full space back.
>> 
>> Gabe
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:54 AM, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have been using a Mac since 2011 and I have never had this issue so it 
>>> may be that you were unlucky.
>>> In contrast in the same period I have had SD cards fail in my Windows PC, 
>>> coincidently this happen only this Monday and I lost 16 GB of data which 
>>> luckily I had backed up. I am not convinced it was the PC fault though and 
>>> is more likely to be a fault on the card itself.
>>> 
>>> David Griffith
>>> On 04/12/2014 17:40, BobH. wrote:
>>>> I'd be careful of that,  Mac is fastidious about format.  It trashed an SD
>>>> card of mine I used in a Milestone.   I had to re-format on the old XP
>>>> machine and put the music back from there.
>>>> 
>>>> RobH.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Lorie McCloud" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 7:40 AM
>>>> Subject: victor reader stream
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> can you use a mac to put stuff on the sd card for the vr-stream? I know
>>>> the stream doesn't play all the same formats as the Mac but I want to be
>>>> able to put stuff on its card from my computer.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
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