I’ve been having trouble with my mp3 players, generally I only load music on them, once in a while ill have an album cover in the file. Ive been just mounting it and copy the files from my hard drive the mp3 players, I used to delete them by sending them to the trash can but i kept having problems with my trash can being full, so i deleted them using shift delete and while it deleted the music, the player is still showing 250mb free from a 2gig drive? I emptied the trash can, ran the system cleaner, checked hidden files and cleared out .trash file on the mp3 player but it still shows im using over 75% of it, I have the same problem with a 4gig coby as well. opensuse 11.4 kde desktop thanks.
Is it possible you have files other than music on there, videos or pics maybe?
Have you tried listing the contents of the player when you have it mounted? Something as simple as ‘ls path-to-player’ in a console window should show you exactly what’s on it, something must be using the space unless the drive has some kind of error resulting in a ‘false’ free space reading
Running chkdsk on it under windows is worth trying just in case there are any filesystem errors
What is a ‘4gig coby’ ?
A Coby mp827 4gig mp3/video player, its a cheap touch screen player, I have an even cheaper one trekstor ibeat 2gig, there both just plain jane media players. I download music all the time and I havn’t had any problems until recently. I just mount and open the players with dolphin copy the music from my hard drive to the external device. I havn’t had any problems until recently, sometimes my desktop will lock up in the process, it creates the directories and everything but on the mp3 players it’s an empty file, when I delete it the file goes away, but my devices still register a used amount of space. It also does it to a 16gb micro sd card I got for the Coby mp3 player. It’s a vfat and if I need to I can just reformat it without compromising the player in theory. I’ve read a few different things, one stated that his computer crashed while copying files and they went to a “ghost directory” and the space was still allocated, but the files were gone, which is the same issue I’m having. I think I’m going to switch back to gnome, it has an eject feature instead of just safely remove, the eject feature deletes the contents of the trash can and powers off the device, where as the simply remove under kde doesn’t do those things. I checked for hidden files I found .trash-1000, but its empty, I emptied the system trash, ran a system cleaner (under privacy in the kde menu) but when I unplug the devices it still shows I’m using 1.5gigs of a 2gig drive, I’m going to look at how to reformat my players and switch back to gnome, i love kde, but watching movies and loading music on an mp3 player is about the only reason I have a computer in the first place lol, if anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears, thanks for the response Ecky and help.
On 2011-09-20 16:46, godzillabot wrote:
> simply remove under kde doesn’t do those things. I checked for hidden
> files I found .trash-1000, but its empty, I emptied the system trash,
> ran a system cleaner (under privacy in the kde menu) but when I unplug
> the devices it still shows I’m using 1.5gigs of a 2gig drive,
Use ‘mc’, Midnight Commander, a text mode file manager, inside konsole. It
will display all files.
Also you can manually umount the device, taking note of the device node,
and run an fsck on it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)