Need help cleaning up my SD Card

[BraixenIsTheBest]

Hello. So here's what's going on. It's been a LONG time since my SD Card has gotten a proper clean up and it's to the point I'm not exactly sure how to help it. It's performance has been steadily going down hill probably because it's being bogged down with a bunch of junk. I use a FAT32 1TB Micro SD Card. I boot into Emunand using Fusee. To my knowledge, everything is up to date. Firmware, Atmosphere, Sigpatches, ect. I can't seem to be able to unlink my Nintendo ID even when using the proper methods. Which is VERY unfortunately cause now 90% of my games are saying, you must have a Nintendo ID to play this game. On top of everything else, Tinfoil won't download games right and I keep getting a 2002-4153 error upon launching a game. Here's what some of my stuff is looking like. Any help is appreciated.

 

[l7777]

The card is just a storage medium. It doesn't matter how many things are on it unless it's full. Only what is requested by the OS will be loaded.
Where I'd start:

1. Make a complete backup of the card & emunand
2. Do a destructive read/write test with the tool of your choice to verify that the hardware is still good
3. Reinstall hekate/ams/sigpatches & test
4. Rebuild emunand & test
5. If everything checks out, restore your emunand backup & test

That will likely illuminate your issue.

 

[BraixenIsTheBest]

The card is just a storage medium. It doesn't matter how many things are on it unless it's full. Only what is requested by the OS will be loaded.
Where I'd start:

1. Make a complete backup of the card & emunand
2. Do a destructive read/write test with the tool of your choice to verify that the hardware is still good
3. Reinstall hekate/ams/sigpatches & test
4. Rebuild emunand & test
5. If everything checks out, restore your emunand backup & test

That will likely illuminate your issue.

1. Working on dumping the entire SD card into a back up on my PC.
2. Don't know what a destructive read/write test is or what tool to use.
3. Will this figure out what issues I've been having with Tinfoil/that one error/ect?
4. This dump is probably gonna take another 2 hours before we can proceed. All I know is, everyone swears by FAT32 so hopefully all is good there.

 

[l7777]

1. Working on dumping the entire SD card into a back up on my PC.
2. Don't know what a destructive read/write test is or what tool to use.
3. Will this figure out what issues I've been having with Tinfoil/that one error/ect?
4. This dump is probably gonna take another 2 hours before we can proceed. All I know is, everyone swears by FAT32 so hopefully all is good there.

2. Get h2testw and run a write + verify test. It will erase everything on the card so make sure you're happy with your backups
3. You'll want to install/test tinfoil at each point to see where/if it starts to fail.

You can also skip the emunand restore if you just backup your saved games, create a new emunand, then restore your saves and re-install your games. As is typical, there are multiple paths to the same end goal of rebuilding your sdcard.

 

[Hayato213]

What brand is the SD card?

 

[BraixenIsTheBest]

The card is just a storage medium. It doesn't matter how many things are on it unless it's full. Only what is requested by the OS will be loaded.
Where I'd start:

1. Make a complete backup of the card & emunand
2. Do a destructive read/write test with the tool of your choice to verify that the hardware is still good
3. Reinstall hekate/ams/sigpatches & test
4. Rebuild emunand & test
5. If everything checks out, restore your emunand backup & test

That will likely illuminate your issue.

Made a full back up of the SD Card on my External. How do I proceed from here.

What brand is the SD card?

SanDisk Extreme 1 TB Micro SD Card. It's been serving me well.

 

[Hayato213]

What you have a hidden partition emunand?

 

[BraixenIsTheBest]

Okay so as an update, I got Zelda working but I still wanna go through with a thorough clean out just in case it may fix some other issues like not being able to play my previously downloaded games cause it requires a Nintendo ID which I can't get any app to unlink mine for me.

 

[impeeza]

Hello. So here's what's going on. It's been a LONG time since my SD Card has gotten a proper clean up and it's to the point I'm not exactly sure how to help it. It's performance has been steadily going down hill probably because it's being bogged down with a bunch of junk. I use a FAT32 1TB Micro SD Card. I boot into Emunand using Fusee. To my knowledge, everything is up to date. Firmware, Atmosphere, Sigpatches, ect. I can't seem to be able to unlink my Nintendo ID even when using the proper methods. Which is VERY unfortunately cause now 90% of my games are saying, you must have a Nintendo ID to play this game. On top of everything else, Tinfoil won't download games right and I keep getting a 2002-4153 error upon launching a game. Here's what some of my stuff is looking like. Any help is appreciated.

you need to install sigpatches again, donwload latest from the thread. and use LinkAlho to link your profile.