My SD-card has a strange name

[Vurp]

Hello.

My Pandora seems to have issues with my SD-card changing name from time to time. It has done so for some time now and I think it usually happens when the Pandora runs out of power or when the battery glitches and hard-resets. However it was not an issue until now. The SD-card is the one that has all the software for my Pandora on it. I can access files on the card just fine but I cannot run any software from it. The current path to the sd-card is /media/?PNG??? where the last three ?s are some unknown characters and the first ? is a line break which I presume is what messes things up.

I don't have a lot of experience with Linux but I have made some attempts with the mount command to no avail.

Anyone have a clue as to why it happens and what I can do to solve it?

 

[Wally]

Where did you buy the SD Card from?

What format are you formatting the card in?
Are you putting the card into a PC or Macintosh?

 

[Vurp]

Where did you buy the SD Card from?

What format are you formatting the card in?


Are you putting the card into a PC or Macintosh?

1&2) The SD-card was the one I got with the pandora when I bought it. I have not formatted the card since I got the device and it has worked fine for a year or so.

3) I tried putting the SD-card into a windows PC and it worked fine. The issue isn't reading or writing files to the card but rather launching software from it.

 

[Wally]

Try formatting the drive using the Panasonic SD Card Formatter software. Looks as if there's some corruption there!