[puckstopper1]

I did a back up and and starting syncing some playlists onto my 8320 and it says that I had an error on my media card. No big deal since I just did a back up thinking that the media card contents were backed up as well. I reformatted the card and did a restore...BAM! Everything I had on the card was gone!...apparently when you do a back up it does not back up the media card? I was pretty frustrated about this...it's a good thing I didn't have anything super important on the card besides pics and music but I was still disappointed. Did I do something wrong with the back up or do I need to back up the media card separately?

[trucky]

Best way to backup your media card is directly to your PC via the USB cable. Next best is to remove it and use a card reader to make your backup.

[tony bag o donuts]

Best way to backup your media card is directly to your PC via the USB cable. Next best is to remove it and use a card reader to make your backup.

+1....just keep in mind if you have something wrong with your card, copying stuff off and then back on will put the same problems back.

[trucky]

further... if you do copy everything off to your PC that would be the perfect time to format the mSD card in your blackberry.

[elvin1983]

Correct, and whenever you format your card, whatever data that was previously on there will go away... just so you know.
When I switched from my Razr to my BB, I hooked the Razr into my PC, pulled everything I wanted to keep off of it and put it in a folder on my desktop, I then put the media card in my BB, re-formatted it, plugged it into my PC, then cut and pasted everything into it's place on the media card. Worked perfectly!

[puckstopper1]

Okay...so when I do a back up via USB from my computer to BB that does not save the media card? How would I go about saving the media card?

[Foulwx]

You are correct. When you do a back up from Desktop Manger, it does NOT back up your SD card.

What I've done is to go to Homescreen/Options/Memory and auto enable mass storage mode when connected (this is what OS.230 says on my Tour). That way, when I plug my Tour into the USB cable, up pops a Windows autoplay window that makes it looks like I've just plugged in a USB memory stick. I just open the folder to view the files, and then use windows explorer to copy what I want to back up to my computer.

Hope this helps.

[Coruptyed]

I would say easiest way is to plug in blackberry and launch mass media then just copy and paste everything to your pc once it launches

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[puckstopper1]

Awesome! Now I know! Just stinks that I had to lose a bunch of photos in the process, but at least I just got the phone 2 weeks ago so there wasn't that much on there.

Thank you for the advice!

[elvin1983]

That's correct. When you plug in your BB it should ask you if you want to enable Mass Storage Mode, select yes on your BB, and then a window should pop up on your PC where you want to open folder to view files. From here you can select everything, copy and then paste it into a folder on your PC desktop.
When you do the backup using Desktop Manage, that only backs up the data on your device itself, it does nothing with the media card.