Originally Posted by trondis23
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I recently bought a 4 GB SDHC card from eBay. That is, I thought it was a 4 GB card. It was announced as 4 GB, and both the PC and the PPC reports that the capacity is 4 GB. The card also works fine - until I try to put more than 2 GB (compressed files) on the card. If I do that I get a lot of unreadable files and folders with strange names. These are impossible to delete from Windows. From the PPC it is possible to delete them. But if I start the PPC with the SD card installed, it might freeze the system.
So I am convinced that this is a card with a compressed file system, and that the real capacity is 2 GB. I am going to confront the seller with this. But I wonder if there is a utility that show the real capacity of the card, or that the file system is compressed. Can anyone direct me to such a utility?
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Are you putting the files into folders? There is a limit to the number of directory entries permitted in the root directory of the card, i.e., "Storage Card" or "CF Card" or "SD Card." When you get to that limit, the card reports memory shortage, when in fact it's really short of directory entry space. There is no limit in the folders, so delete a couple of files, create some folders and put files in there. Might help.