alert5

Well I can't prove it but I'm convinced this is an Axim5 issue. A common item in the threads seems to be the card is at great risk when doing OS intensive writes to the card. My latest trashing of the device occurred when I downloaded "405 The Movie", about an 8 MB mpeg file to my desktop.

I did an activesync and tried to copy the mpg from the desktop to an empty "My Documents" folder on the Sandisk card. About 90% through the copy and "conversion" process, I got an error message saying basically forget about it, your media is hosed.

Sure enough the card was trashed and had to be reformatted.

I then copied the same movie file to my personal folder in main memory and it copied and "converted" just fine. I then cut and pasted the file to a "My Documents" folder that I created on the freshly formatted card. No problem and it runs just fine.

Since then I've cut and pasted a number of applications and all their support files and data from main memory to folders on the Sandisk card with the same name. These included PocketTV and PocketMVP. The apps work just fine off the card.

I think the subtle difference here is I'm bypassing the "conversion" part of getting stuff onto the card. But I bet you if I try to install an application or even copy a file that requires "conversion" directly to the Sandisk, it would likely bomb.

I've now got over 30MBs on the device now (all backed up of course) and will continue to use this thing until my new non-Sandisk 256 MB SD Card arrives.