Sansa e280 drive letters show, but can't access them

[Macguyver]

The drive letters show but I can't access them - ideas?

For a little background it has been taking longer than usual for things to happen, tap skip nad 10 seconds later it skips etc. Was going to reformat, but I wanted to backup the root (my playlists mainly) and can't.

I can get to it via the Sansa menu with MTP but that does really help me.

[saratoga]

You can put the OF into MSC mode and then check the disk for errors.

[Macguyver]

You can put the OF into MSC mode and then check the disk for errors.

Couldn't really do anything, so I was able to back it up from the original F/W and luckily set it up for a re-format. It's doing it now, so we'll see.

This will be the second format in about 4-6 months - I'm thinking it's slowly beginning to fail.

It's better, but as I backed up the whole root, and copied everything back over, my bookmarks are gone.
Could someone tell me where they WERE?

[[Saint]]

Why are you backing up this media from the device to begin with? Backups are great, but only if the content can be verified.

Please don't tell me that these files only exist in one location.

There is a very high chance this media is no longer 100% intact. The way people normally handle things like this is to treat the contents of the player as being entirely transient and to just nuke the lot and replace it from the backup you're supposed to have that you know to be verifiably intact.

It'll start as a fucky filename, or screwy metadata, then one day you'll think "Shit, where did track 8 of this album go? There's a track 7 and a track 9..." and then it'll dawn on you that you've been slowly breaking your collection over a period of years.

Treat any media that touches these types of devices as if it can be destroyed or lost at a moments notice. Because it can be.

Your bookmarks (most likely) sing this song already. You didn't back up your media, you backed up what was leftover and could be backed up and restored after filesystem corruption danced a fatal dance.


[Saint]

[Macguyver]

Why are you backing up this media from the device to begin with? Backups are great, but only if the content can be verified.

Please don't tell me that these files only exist in one location.

There is a very high chance this media is no longer 100% intact. The way people normally handle things like this is to treat the contents of the player as being entirely transient and to just nuke the lot and replace it from the backup you're supposed to have that you know to be verifiably intact.

It'll start as a fucky filename, or screwy metadata, then one day you'll think "Shit, where did track 8 of this album go? There's a track 7 and a track 9..." and then it'll dawn on you that you've been slowly breaking your collection over a period of years.

Treat any media that touches these types of devices as if it can be destroyed or lost at a moments notice. Because it can be.

Your bookmarks (most likely) sing this song already. You didn't back up your media, you backed up what was leftover and could be backed up and restored after filesystem corruption danced a fatal dance.


[Saint]

Now that you're done trying to rip me a new asshole (you failed), I'm assuming you don't know where my bookmarks file is?

[[Saint]]

There is no one "bookmarks file".

Bookmarks are stored in the same directory as the media they refer to. Them being missing (which I would think to be merely the tip of the iceberg) is a fairly good indication of the corruption and data loss I was speaking about.

I don't care what you think my intentions to be.


[Saint]

[johnb]

I feel Macguyver is referring to the recent_bookmarks file which would sit in the .rockbox folder.

[[Saint]]

Ah. Yes. That's possible, perhaps I was too literal.


[Saint]