If an MP3 music download fails because of an online glitch – or because someone has posted a corrupt file online to annoy people trying to download music for free – an unnamed junk file of incomplete data sits hidden on your solid-state memory card.
Because the file has no name, it is invisible and cannot be deleted, so it continues to take up valuable storage space until the user wipes the whole card. To avoid this, Toshiba is developing a new player (EP 1261203) that has a temporary memory where downloaded files are stored. Only when the download is complete is…
