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Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - RDCst75 - 06-03-2022
Hello All,
New to the board and CPAP Therapy!
Purchased my own equipment due to DME company being out of equipment with no firm date of availability.
So, I purchased my machine through Sleeplay and it is the ResMed Air Sense 11 AutoSet version.
It has Bluetooth/wireless connectivity and I have been successful in reviewing my first few nights of data in the MyAir App. Of course, during all my research prior to purchasing a machine and the fact that I am a bit of a techie...I would like to see more detailed information on my therapy. I learned of OSCAR through YouTube and found this board via Google while searching to resolve my issue.
Onto the issue:
I formatted a 32gb MicroSD card using FAT32. Placed that card in the SD card adaptor and inserted it into the slot on the machine. Blue activity light activated, and I received a message on the LCD screen that all was well. Went to bed last night and today when I removed the card to check the data, nothing was recorded?
There are some folders on the card, but no data??
These are the two main folders:
.fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
Both folders appear to have been created by the CPAP machine when the card was initialized in the machine, as the Date/Time stamp match yesterday afternoon.
Am I doing something wrong? Any help or advice is appreciated.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - Jeff8356 - 06-03-2022
(06-03-2022, 05:15 PM)RDCst7 Wrote: .fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
Looks like you are using a Mac. Those folders are created by macOS and are unnecessary, they can be deleted.
Does your microSD adapter have a write protect switch on it? It sounds like your xPAP machine didn't write anything to the card at all. Usually caused by the write protect switch being left on.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - RDCst75 - 06-03-2022
Thanks for the reply!
I checked the adaptor and it is not locked. Will definitely try to format it with my PC and see if that makes a difference, but not sure it will since I was able to format it in FAT32.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - Jeff8356 - 06-03-2022
Either way, both Windows and Mac will write some unecessary files to the SD card.
There is a free formatting tool available (Windows and Mac) from the SD Association. The group that comes up with SD card standards.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/
It will format the SD card correctly based on it's storage capacity (ie: 32GB will be FAT32).
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - RDCst75 - 06-03-2022
Ok cool, I will try that and see what happens. Thanks again!
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - ECM5 - 06-17-2022
I am just curious if you fixed this. I am also new have an AS11 & a Mac and I bought an SD card from Amazon and just stuck it in the AS11 and it recorded, I don’t think I formatted it at all.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - RDCst75 - 06-17-2022
Yes, Jeff8356's suggestion worked for me.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - Crimson Nape - 06-17-2022
ECM5 - New SD cards come preformatted to a FAT32.
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - ECM5 - 06-17-2022
Ah thank you I knew it had to be something like that !
RE: Air Sense 11 SD Card Issues - cathyf - 06-18-2022
Something to be aware of if you don't have an SD card slot on your computer and you use a USB adapter -- some of those dongles are unable to tell that you've write-protected the card, and when you plug it into your computer it vomits crap all over your card!
I got so sick of cleaning dot-files up that I installed an ubuntu virtual machine and I only read the card in unix, which is much better house-broken than mac or windows.