Problem with phantom files on MemStickDuo

I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to
hold 1 gig. After that it writes broken files. Full sized but
broken. So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this
situation.

The situation seems to be caused in whole or in part by retaining some
files in a recycle folder called TRASHES which as far as I can see can
only be seen on a Mac. These mysterious files can be written over but
when one does so, the resulting files cannot be read. Is this an
inherent problem with the Sony format or is there something I can be
doing wrong? Once you have written about 100 files on a camera in
(for example) burst mode, it becomes a bit tedious deleting each one
individually: I wonder if deleting them collectively on the PC or the
Mac causes these phantom files to be created? Or if the stick still
wouldnt write them properly when writing gets to the second 'part' of
the stick?

Is there any way of checking these sticks for things aking to bad
clusters or sectors? Or indeed of marking them bad? Should I be able
to do this with some (new?) UBCD4WIN cd utility?

DManzaluni wrote:
r I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to
hold 1 gig. After that it writes broken files. Full sized but
broken. So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this
situation.

The situation seems to be caused in whole or in part by retaining some
files in a recycle folder called TRASHES which as far as I can see can
only be seen on a Mac. These mysterious files can be written over but
when one does so, the resulting files cannot be read. Is this an
inherent problem with the Sony format or is there something I can be
doing wrong? Once you have written about 100 files on a camera in
(for example) burst mode, it becomes a bit tedious deleting each one
individually: I wonder if deleting them collectively on the PC or the
Mac causes these phantom files to be created? Or if the stick still
wouldnt write them properly when writing gets to the second 'part' of
the stick?

Is there any way of checking these sticks for things aking to bad
clusters or sectors? Or indeed of marking them bad? Should I be able
to do this with some (new?) UBCD4WIN cd utility?

Maybe you got a faked drive, i.e. one with less flash than
claimed on the thing. These do report the wrong size to the
system. In your case it would need to report 50GB in
size. If this is the problem, you can only throw it away.

Arno

On Mar 19, 10:34*pm, Arno wrote:
DManzaluni wrote:

r I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to





hold 1 gig. *After that it writes broken files. *Full sized but
broken. * So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this
situation.
The situation seems to be caused in whole or in part by retaining some
files in a recycle folder called TRASHES which as far as I can see can
only be seen on a Mac. *These mysterious files can be written over but
when one does so, the resulting files cannot be read. *Is this an
inherent problem with the Sony format or is there something I can be
doing wrong? *Once you have written about 100 files on a camera in
(for example) burst mode, it becomes a bit tedious deleting each one
individually: I wonder if deleting them collectively on the PC or the
Mac causes these phantom files to be created? Or if the stick still
wouldnt write them properly when writing gets to the second 'part' of
the stick?
Is there any way of checking these sticks for things aking to bad
clusters or sectors? Or indeed of marking them bad? *Should I be able
to do this with some (new?) UBCD4WIN cd utility?

Maybe you got a faked drive, i.e. one with less flash than
claimed on the thing. These do report the wrong size to the
system. In your case it would need to report 50GB in
size. If this is the problem, you can only throw it away.

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No, all the right sizes are being shown, - I can defragment this
drive when it starts not writing properly and it shows i gig used out
of 2 gig in the drive

DManzaluni wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:34?pm, Arno wrote:
DManzaluni wrote:

r I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to





hold 1 gig. ?After that it writes broken files. ?Full sized but
broken. ? So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this
situation.
The situation seems to be caused in whole or in part by retaining some
files in a recycle folder called TRASHES which as far as I can see can
only be seen on a Mac. ?These mysterious files can be written over but
when one does so, the resulting files cannot be read. ?Is this an
inherent problem with the Sony format or is there something I can be
doing wrong? ?Once you have written about 100 files on a camera in
(for example) burst mode, it becomes a bit tedious deleting each one
individually: I wonder if deleting them collectively on the PC or the
Mac causes these phantom files to be created? Or if the stick still
wouldnt write them properly when writing gets to the second 'part' of
the stick?
Is there any way of checking these sticks for things aking to bad
clusters or sectors? Or indeed of marking them bad? ?Should I be able
to do this with some (new?) UBCD4WIN cd utility?

Maybe you got a faked drive, i.e. one with less flash than
claimed on the thing. These do report the wrong size to the
system. In your case it would need to report 50GB in
size. If this is the problem, you can only throw it away.

Arno- Hide quoted text -

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No, all the right sizes are being shown, - I can defragment this
drive when it starts not writing properly and it shows i gig used out
of 2 gig in the drive

Hmm. So how can you write a 50G file to a 2G filesystem? That is
not possible....

Arno

On Mar 20, 7:08*pm, Arno wrote:
DManzaluni wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:34?pm, Arno wrote:
DManzaluni wrote:

r I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to

hold 1 gig. ?After that it writes broken files. ?Full sized but
broken. ? So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this
situation.
The situation seems to be caused in whole or in part by retaining some
files in a recycle folder called TRASHES which as far as I can see can
only be seen on a Mac. ?These mysterious files can be written over but
when one does so, the resulting files cannot be read. ?Is this an
inherent problem with the Sony format or is there something I can be
doing wrong? ?Once you have written about 100 files on a camera in
(for example) burst mode, it becomes a bit tedious deleting each one
individually: I wonder if deleting them collectively on the PC or the
Mac causes these phantom files to be created? Or if the stick still
wouldnt write them properly when writing gets to the second 'part' of
the stick?
Is there any way of checking these sticks for things aking to bad
clusters or sectors? Or indeed of marking them bad? ?Should I be able
to do this with some (new?) UBCD4WIN cd utility?

Maybe you got a faked drive, i.e. one with less flash than
claimed on the thing. These do report the wrong size to the
system. In your case it would need to report 50GB in
size. If this is the problem, you can only throw it away.

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No, all the right sizes are being shown, - *I can defragment this
drive when it starts not writing properly and it shows i gig used out
of 2 gig in the drive

Hmm. So how can you write a 50G file to a 2G filesystem? That is
not possible....

Arno- Hide quoted text -

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sorry for the mispring: Obviously i meant 50 mb, not gig