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I just got my Axim a week ago and I've been trying out some new programs. Well, I've seen that you're supposed to be able to store programs on an SD card so that you don't take up a lot of your RAM space, but I'm having a little problem. When the "Do you want to install to default" question comes up I put "no" and then try to click on the SD Card. But when I do this the little number at the bottom saying how much space is available says <none available>. I know this isn't true because when I check memory on my device it says that there's still 32M left on the card (other 32M are used up by pictures from my camera). What am I doing wrong?

I was also wondering where would be the best place to store programs like Journal Bar, tdlaunch, Calendar+ and Pocket Informant (RAM or ROM). I'm going to have 2 SD cards because I have a digital camera w/ SD card, so I won't have just 1 SD card in the device at all times. I don't want to use CF for memory, because I eventually want to get a wireless network card.

If the programs need to go in RAM, do you know if programs like Windows MediaPlayer and Microsoft Reader are stored in RAM? Can they be moved to an SD card to free up space in RAM? What about Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer?

Also, which is better? To have one big SD/MMC card with all of your programs and files on it, or a couple different cards with one or two programs and their associated files. (ie. one card with photos and Resco Picture Viewer, another card with Microsoft Reader and all your e-books, another card with games,etc?) I will always have a separate card for picture files and at the moment I'm intending on storing a picture viewer on the same card. Will this work? Thanks for any information.

NMkiD

Lotsa questions! I'll address a few, as far as it telling you there is no memory avaliable, I don't know why its says that but mine says it too and its wrong, go ahead and install it to the SD and it'll go, I think it just dosent know how much space is left so its defaulted to say none avaliable. Just keep track of it on your own.

I install *all* my programs to my SD card, journal bar,today launchers, etc, many of these will install the *required components in the windows folder anyway, mostly in .dll form, but those are small files usually so they dont waste too much space. Anything else and it will install it into a folder on your SD card, however dont be surprised to see a Folder with no contents inside it from time to time (this means it probably installed required components into the windows folder) anyway you can see where the majority of the install goes while watching the install file bar progress meter thing on the ppc screen.

Everything that came with the Dell like programs such as MS Word and Player are not in RAM they are in ROM (Read Only Memory) so that they cannot be deleted, they are "hard written" there, you can change them and stuff but a hard reset will bring them back, so yes you can transfer then to a SD card but it will not change the avaliabel space in ROM.

As far as how many cards you want thats up to you, I'd rather have one big card that I can install all my programs too and just leave it in there all the time and have a removale CF with media and wifi so that I can interchange those while still having all my program in my SD card.

Yes you can have media like picures and apps like picture viewers all on the same card, they are pretty easy to work with. If I were you I'd try to install most things to the SD card and leave the avaliabel memory on the Axim free for program use, the more memory avalible for the program to use on the Axim the better proformance you'll get.

hope that helped.