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ashre is offline ashre
2010-01-19 , 18:49
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The main internal FAT partition with documents on (MyDocs) keeps changing state to be read-only (the main way I notice is podcast downloads through gPodder fail) after my N900 has been on for a few hours. If I switch it off and on again I can write to MyDocs again. I've only noticed this since PR1.1 so it could be related.

Has anyone seen anything similar or have any advice?
 
mehdiE is offline mehdiE
2010-01-19 , 19:01
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Had the exact same problem on Thursday evening (less than a week ago), a few hours after I had upgraded to PR 1.1. The whole partition suddenly went read-only while I was taking notes using the built-in Notes app and downloading podcasts over 3G with gPodder. The failed downloads in gPodder is what made me notice the issue too. Notes of course refused to save my note. Everything went back to normal after a reboot and I haven't encountered the issue since.

I had never had this issue with either the previous firmware or the pre-release firmware. This issue doesn't seem to be specific to PR 1.1 though. There have been a few people reporting this issue here in the past (found a few messages when looking for solutions).
 

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2010-01-19 , 19:06
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Try plugging it into another computer and see if the FAT32 partition needs fixing. I had a similar problem a while back, and I used Disk Utility on my Mac on it, which solved my problem.
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ashre is offline ashre
2010-01-19 , 19:28
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Thanks fnordianslip, I plugged it into my mac and ran Disk Utility. Verify disk reported 96 orphan clusters and stopped with an error so I ran Repair disk and that seems to have sorted it.
 
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2010-02-12 , 17:23
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I have the same problem but I do not have a mac.

Any different solution?
 
Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-12 , 18:20
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Originally Posted by acano View Post
I have the same problem but I do not have a mac.

Any different solution?
You can do the same thing in Windows - connect via USB in mass storage mode, then do a check on the virtual disk.
 

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acano is offline acano
2010-02-12 , 19:35
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I did that but did not work,

Furtermore I was to write on the partion when using windows creating a text file. But when I try to access to it from the xterm and write a file with vi editor, always obtain the same error: system file read only.

Someone has more ideas, (I begin to be a litle frustrted...)
 
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2010-02-12 , 19:37
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Have you rebooted after running the check?
 
acano is offline acano
2010-02-13 , 14:51
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Sorry about my previous message. finally it worked fine.

Thank you very much for your help!

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