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Jude is offline Jude
2010-09-12 , 14:12
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Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
Did you connect your n900 in mass storage mode to a windows machine? Might be yout MyDocs partition got infected with some windows virus which replicates on usb sticks.
Yes i connected it to a windows system while trying to transfer the stardict files.. Do you suggest i delete those files on my n900.

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Jude is offline Jude
2010-09-12 , 14:25
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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
These are my quesses:
e: 0. Reboot
1. Is the app mentioned only app installed recently?
2. So there are new images in your image viewer app? (admon bug whatever)
3. Have you tried changing camera storage in camera settings?
Thanks for your respone..

i have reboot the system. the app mentioned is the only recent one i installed.

as for the camera setting, i have never tried changein the setting...

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Jude is offline Jude
2010-09-12 , 14:40
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Originally Posted by paulkoan View Post
Please don't go ahead blindly and do this -- do some searches of the problem on here, and make sure your situation is the same, and make sure you understand what it is you are doing.
thanks paulkoan..

i didnt mean to sound ungrateful... i am willing to provide all the necessary explianations that i can... as for the step you proferred to correct the fat32 error, i guess i should hold on a bit as I am grossly inexperienced and rely on the teams strenght in resolving my problem.

i dont know if its right to suggest using another system to scan the N900 once in mass storage mood.

i am thankful and rely on the team

thanks guys
 
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2010-09-12 , 15:37
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Well I admit my first guess (a virus) was quite excessive... I was brought in that direction by the admon-bug which I thought could be a virus internal signature. But admon-bug seems an icon name - as results from a quick google search.

The procedure to check and repair the MyDocs filesystem should be, in a root xterm
Code:
mount -o ro,remount /home/user/MyDocs
fsck.vfat -y /home/user/MyDocs
then I would issue a
Code:
sync
and then a
Code:
halt
.
Then turn on and cross fingers.

What do you think?
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2010-09-12 , 18:44
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it strongly sounds like a problem with mydocs -partition.

Plug n900 to your pc, can your pc access the 27gb partition?
If yes, remove it safely (unmount) and check if it is remounted to maemo automatically.
If no, you could try those xterm commands.
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Jude is offline Jude
2010-09-12 , 20:02
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Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
and then a
Code:
halt
.
Then turn on and cross fingers.

What do you think?
Thanks Debernardis,

i have tried this out and ossipena recommendation. when i entered your command in the root mode; it returned a message saying "Memory is read only until fixed. Try fixing memory with a pc after plugging in USB cable. Create data backup first to save existing memory content".

what do you think?

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2010-09-13 , 06:42
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So do as it says:
connect to a pc, copy all your files from MyDocs to a secure position (don't forget the hidden directories like .documents or .images - both in windows and in gnu-linux there are options to see hidden files) then use your desktop to repair your MyDocs partition.
In linux it's the same command as I wrote above.
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Jude is offline Jude
2010-09-13 , 08:23
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Hi Debernardis,

Thanks for your response...

Just to confirm; do you mean after I copy out the files to a safe location on my PC, i should format the drive using the format option in "my computer"

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2010-09-13 , 08:26
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Originally Posted by Jude View Post
Hi Debernardis,

Thanks for your response...

Just to confirm; do you mean after I copy out the files to a safe location on my PC, i should format the drive using the format option in "my computer"

Thanks
you should try fixing the partition first before reformatting
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265
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2010-09-13 , 14:42
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Thanks Ossipena,

I have successfully formated it and it appears everything is in good shape now. Do you advice I restore my back-up file?

Thanks in advance.
 
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