MicroDrive & MicroDrive 2

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I started this question in a different thread but it probably now deserves its own.

I have recently got an Ameo. I use push mail and asked the Ameo to store the attachments on the Storage Card.

After a while, I noticed (when TomTom started misbehaving) that it had created a new directory of the device called "Microdrive" and had renamed the MD "Microdrive2". The only thing in the Microdrive directory is an empty folder for attachments.

I thought a hard reset (with MD format) might help, which I've just done. Hey presto, the MD becomes Microdrive again and no sign of Microdrive2. For about 20 minutes. It recreated this thing itself. Is it creating this directory as it needs to partition the Microdrive or is there some other reason for it? Will it create any more directories or will it stay stable with just the 2 MD directories?

Any thoughts gratefully appreciated.

mine does the same thing. I'm sure it didnt do it before I installed Tom Tom but I might be wrong. My old Mio A701 did a similar thing with the storage card...

MD

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I do not have this problem and I have TomTom installed in memory and the maps on the microdrive.

Do you store your attachments on the storage card?
If Yes, do you have an miniSD in your device?

If you have a miniSD you will see that is you store your attachments on the storagecard that the attachments are stored on de miniSD card and not on the MicroDrive.

If you do not have an miniSD card I guess it creates te MicroDrive2 directory which will be used als storagecard.

Do you recognize this?

It created the Microdrive2 directory at some point after I had inserted the storage card (I had no card inserted when I did the hard reset). However, I still have not reinstalled TomTom (and won't do so until I've figured this out) - so I don;t think this is TomTom's fault (for once!)

One of the reasons I could think of is that you have a Today plugin that somehow needs to access the Microdrive for some information. And because the MicroDrive is not initialized when that plugin does its thing, it will automatically create a folder called MircoDrive in internal storage. Did you do any soft reset between the hard reset and that MicroDrive2 appearing again?

In my case, I moved the Messaging folder from \Windows to MicroDrive, and I enabled the Messaging plugin on Today's screen. Naturally, this caused the actual MicroDrive to be recognized as MicroDrive2 (for reasons stated above), and I had to remove that plugin, and do a soft reset to clear the problem.

HTH.

Thanks for the thoughts but I didnlt soft reset. Also, I had no unusal today plugins working and the only data in the Mircrodrive directory was and empty Attachments folder.

It seems stable now (no MD3 yet!) so it looks like I'll have to live with it.

Hi,

i have had this problem occur several times, Tom tom is defiantly not to blame as i had this happen before i installed it. Instead for formatting the drive just delete the folder named Microdrive and soft reset, you should find that Microdrive2 has gone and the microdrive is back and any programs installed on the microdrive will now work as before.. hope this helps

Originally Posted by maxnds

Hi,

i have had this problem occur several times, Tom tom is defiantly not to blame as i had this happen before i installed it. Instead for formatting the drive just delete the folder named Microdrive and soft reset, you should find that Microdrive2 has gone and the microdrive is back and any programs installed on the microdrive will now work as before.. hope this helps

Thanks. However, as you have had the problem several times, I think it is probably better to leave the MicroDrive directory and keep the MD named MicroDrive2 - provided it is stable and I install the progs after the MD has renamed itself, I won't need to do anything else. Here's waiting for MD3....

I have found that this problem occurs if you store mail or attachments on the Microdrive or if you set your temporary internet files to save to the Microdrive. It only occurs for me when I soft reset the device. I think the Microdrive is not being loaded fast enough at startup so the mail/internet program creates a Microdrive folder. Then when the Microdrive starts up it can't be called Microdrive so is renamed to Microdrive2.
The only way to fix this was to reset mail, attachments and temporary internet files to save in the default location and then delete the Microdrive folder that was created. After anothe soft reset the Microdrive will be called Microdrive again and everything will work normally.

Originally Posted by inspectorgadjet

I have found that this problem occurs if you store mail or attachments on the Microdrive or if you set your temporary internet files to save to the Microdrive. It only occurs for me when I soft reset the device. I think the Microdrive is not being loaded fast enough at startup so the mail/internet program creates a Microdrive folder. Then when the Microdrive starts up it can't be called Microdrive so is renamed to Microdrive2.
The only way to fix this was to reset mail, attachments and temporary internet files to save in the default location and then delete the Microdrive folder that was created. After anothe soft reset the Microdrive will be called Microdrive again and everything will work normally.

Thanks - I agree that that is probably what is happening.

I think I have now decided (until a proper solution is found to avoid this) and given that I don;t want to waste valuable RAM on storing quite large attachments, I will live with this. The stupid thing is that the Mail Attachment subdirectory of the Microdrive directory never gets anything in it - the attachments always get stored on the MD itself (in Microdrive2) - presumably that is because the MD is then online.