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I am having a problem with the storage chips we're using. They work fine for a while and then they just say the memory is full even though I've deleted every file every time I upload them to my computer. We've been using 16GB chips for the wild life camera and it doesn't take too long for this to happen. Today, however, my64GB chip did the same thing in my camera that I'm using to take videos every day of the baby birds. When I tried to reformat the disk, the chip would not show up on the side bar to choose for anything. Then I looked in help online on how to reformat removable disks on a Mac. These directions indicate that there could be a limit on how many times you can write over an erased file. I don't know what else would cause this problem.

Rose Dickerson
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  • "I am having a problem with the storage chips ..." -- Referring to a storage device by its internal components is like naming foods by their ingredients, e.g. "I like flour" instead of saying cookies and cake. IOW use the proper name, e.g. Compact Flash, or SD card, or USB flash drive etc. – sawdust Apr 16 '20 at 03:50

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Removable media fail much more often than drives and memory in a computer. The stress of plugging and unplugging in time creates physical damage on the circuit board where the chips connect, and then the removable media fails. You will notice removable media have much shorter warranties than drives and memory within a computer.

K7AAY
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  • Thank you. That makes sense to me. – Rose Dickerson Apr 16 '20 at 02:36
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