Main Memory has decreased dramatically...Assistance required please

[MACkjam]

Hi all,

I noticed last week that my main memory dropped from 32mb to around 17mb all of a sudden!
I have checked every possible location and all I could find was this 16mb file in the root:
mxip_initdb.vol
Can anybody shed some light on this please? What is this file for and can it be moved? I am guessing that it is some sort of database. I haven't tried to do anything yet in case I brick my device.

Any input will be appreciated.

Regards,

MAC

[telegraph0000]

Assume that you have cleared all history from IE..right?

[NotATreoFan]

Hi all,

I noticed last week that my main memory dropped from 32mb to around 17mb all of a sudden!
I have checked every possible location and all I could find was this 16mb file in the root:
mxip_initdb.vol
Can anybody shed some light on this please? What is this file for and can it be moved? I am guessing that it is some sort of database. I haven't tried to do anything yet in case I brick my device.

Any input will be appreciated.

Regards,

MAC

mxip_initdb.vol is a system file, and it cannot be moved from the device root. Also, it is normal for that file to be 16MB, so your memory is definitely being eaten up by something else.

[MACkjam]

mxip_initdb.vol is a system file, and it cannot be moved from the device root. Also, it is normal for that file to be 16MB, so your memory is definitely being eaten up by something else.

OK, this is what I have discovered thus far:
Firstly, this file is duplicated in the Device/Windows directory, which I have left as is.
Secondly, I have moved the file from the root to my Storage card in case I need it. The device seems to run fine without it. I have also since discovered that this is a database file for contacts, calendar etc, even though there is a PIM.vol file also, which cannot be moved.

I haven't done a soft reset yet, but all my pim info seems to be fine so far.
Something must have created a duplicate in the root directory somehow.

[NotATreoFan]

OK, this is what I have discovered thus far:
Firstly, this file is duplicated in the Device/Windows directory, which I have left as is.
Secondly, I have moved the file from the root to my Storage card in case I need it. The device seems to run fine without it. I have also since discovered that this is a database file for contacts, calendar etc, even though there is a PIM.vol file also, which cannot be moved.

I haven't done a soft reset yet, but all my pim info seems to be fine so far.
Something must have created a duplicate in the root directory somehow.

What are the creation/modified dates on the files?

Backup your data and soft reset. Worst case scenario is a hard reset.

[kilrah]

This (http://freewareppc.com/utilities/treesize.shtml) program is of a great help to find big files floating around.

[el_boogie28]

do you get email on your phone thru outlook? if so you could have downloaded a large email that is taking up a lot of space. same thing happened to me once and it turned out to be the large amount of email i got that day on my phone.

[vgergo]

Do you use resco radio by any chance. I read about a bug in ver 1.7 a while back: http://www.resco.net/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11717

Updating to a newer version would cure the problem.

[MACkjam]

No Resco Radio, no large emails. Cleared all cache etc. I have SK Tools so I literally checked everything. It was this mxip_initdb.vol file that was duplicated in the root of the device.

[TT Vario 2]

Hi,

I am having the same problem with Sprite Backup, it never backs up correctly, always reporting errors, at this point if I check the main root folder 3 or 4 files that start with mxip will all be duplicted and as a result of this my memory will be down considerably.
perhaps this could be your problem


Trev