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. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
