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Another odd minor thing
My Amazon Fire tablet suddenly alleged my SD card was read-only. I copied a document to it, and Open Office opened it in read-only mode. This is odd because I just used it to copy 600+ images to my laptop, though originally they were on the laptop and I used the card to copy them - faster than Bluetooth (copying the images to the card and copying them to the laptop was quicker than trying to find which 4 files I hadn't copied for some reason - the card had 659, the laptop 655, when they're supposed to have the exact same files...they do now!). ATM I'm running chkdsk on it c/o a USB adaptor stick; nothing reported wrong so far. 38% checked and still running as of the time of posting this.
This doesn't really matter, as it works for its intended purpose: to backup my files and/or transfer them to and from the laptop. I'm just wondering why the tablet made this allegation. The card's quite new, so it's not an end-of-life thing. Surely if it's read-only it won't allow writing files to it, which it does. Hence my lack of concern. It's just odd.
Then again, this is me we're talking about.
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Last edited by Anonymouse; 18-03-2026 at 03:55.
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18-03-2026, 11:15
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Re: Another odd minor thing
This past year, I have had 3 different brands of USB memory stick become Read Only. "It's to protect the data" said 2 manufacturers.
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18-03-2026, 11:21
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Re: Another odd minor thing
Is this something to do with the flash memory age and total write figures??
---------- Post added at 10:21 ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 ----------
each cell with have a maximum read write and rewrite cycles it would make sense to make data read only if the cells it was written to were nearing their end date as it were
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18-03-2026, 15:41
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Re: Another odd minor thing
Check if the switch on the SD card hasn't flipped
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Yesterday, 05:38
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RIP Tigger - 13 years?!
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Re: Another odd minor thing
There isn't one. Sorry, I should have said - it's a MicroSD card.
Anyway, the tablet hasn't complained further and the card does what I want it to, i.e. transfer a large number of files between tablet and laptop. Can you imagine sending 500+ mp3s via Bluetooth? No chance! But with the card it's a doddle.
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Yesterday, 09:32
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Re: Another odd minor thing
can you not transfer via USB?
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Today, 01:01
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Re: Another odd minor thing
Possibly, using my adaptor stick : it plugs into the recharge socket.
But I've had trouble with moisture in that socket; I don't want to chance it. Not as if I'm moving files all that often anyway.
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