Hi. I'm not sure if you lost any data here because you said you had a copy of the file on your machine. I class SD cards as fairly unreliable storage medium as they can just go without warning, or a mishandle while moving between devices can damage them. If you have all the data already I usually try and format the SD cards in the recording device I am using for example the Plextalk. Its highly unlikely the Linux machine would try and reformat the drive. Never use SD cards as your only storage without backup or for long-term storage. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> Sent: 06 March 2025 05:33 To: plextalk@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Plextalk] An SD-Card Corrupted in a Linux Machine? Hi All: Well, when I tried asking about this on the BookPort list, my message bounced, as I guess that list is gone. So considering how similar these devices ar, I will explain here what happened. Yesterday I recorded an ABC-News stream for several hours, which I wanted to edit. So took this card over to my Linux machine, coppied the file to my hard-drive-and-edited out commercial breaks. After unmounting the card-and-inserting it back in BPDT, it said "no content on sd card" Likewise looking at it again in Linux, won't even load. Not sure, but I think the file system in BookPort is fat32, while my Linux might be an ext4. While I have certainly had successes, I have had 2 or 3 of these type possible disasters. Thanks in advance for any guidance Chime _______________________________________________ Plextalk mailing list -- plextalk@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to plextalk-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org