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DaveC426913
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- My dashcam has worked for a year or more but now it's filling up the SD card and stopping
My Dashcam is telling me the memory card is full. It has done this a couple of times now over the last month or two.
The SD card is a Class (10) 16Gb NEXXTech MicroSD (The class 10 relates to how fast it can record; the Dashcam requires at least a 6 or 8 or something. A 4 is too slow and it won't work.)
What the dashcam should do - and has done until recently - is delete the oldest video clips on the system as-needed so it always has the last 45 minutes or so (depending on the card's capacity).
Troubleshooting:
Chip was Full (not Quick) Formatted after the last time this happened. At the time, it said it had 14.4Gb free. So I'm starting fresh.
I don't think it's a corrupted card. If it were, I'd expect to see the capacity to be lower than 14.4Gb. (Or is it smart enough to reflect faulty blocks in its properties? )
I have bought new SD cards (Lexar) and will see what it does with them, but I suspect the problem is the dashcam, not the chip.
Does anyone have an suggestions what it might be, and/or what I might do to further troubleshoot it?
The SD card is a Class (10) 16Gb NEXXTech MicroSD (The class 10 relates to how fast it can record; the Dashcam requires at least a 6 or 8 or something. A 4 is too slow and it won't work.)
What the dashcam should do - and has done until recently - is delete the oldest video clips on the system as-needed so it always has the last 45 minutes or so (depending on the card's capacity).
Troubleshooting:
Chip was Full (not Quick) Formatted after the last time this happened. At the time, it said it had 14.4Gb free. So I'm starting fresh.
- Drive D: (the chip) has 98.6Mb free of 14.4Gb. (That tells me it does think it has the capacity for ~16Gb (as it should), but is full.)
- File system in Drive properties agrees: Used: 14.3Gb; Free: 98.6
- Diving into the files: D: contains one folder/subfolder: DCIM/DCIMA/
- Folder contains one file: MOVA0116.avi (383.5Mb). (Normally, it would be full with about 14 avi's, each 3 minutes long)
- Turning on hidden files shows there are additional files hiding from me.
I don't think it's a corrupted card. If it were, I'd expect to see the capacity to be lower than 14.4Gb. (Or is it smart enough to reflect faulty blocks in its properties? )
I have bought new SD cards (Lexar) and will see what it does with them, but I suspect the problem is the dashcam, not the chip.
Does anyone have an suggestions what it might be, and/or what I might do to further troubleshoot it?