How-tos · SD card

Find your files on the SD card

Where the notes, tracks, captures, logs and saved pages are written, so you can take the card to a computer and use them.

Everything the firmware writes goes in a folder at the top of the card. Switch the Cardputer off, take the card out and read it in a computer; or look at the same folders in the Storage App.

WhatWhereKind of file
Notes/notes.txt, named after the first line
GNSS Tracks/gnss/tracks.gpx, named by date and time
LoRa captures/captures/lora.pcap
IRC logs/ircone text file per buffer and day
Wi-Fi scan logs/wifi/scans<date>.csv
Gemini Saved Pages/gemini/saved/<host>/….gmi
Gemini bookmarks/gemini/bookmarks.gmigemtext
Files saved from Gemini that are not text/gemini/downloadswhatever they were
Update files/updates.ota

Rules worth knowing

  • Eject first. A file being written (today's IRC log, a Track or a capture being recorded) is not complete until it stops. Stop it, or switch the device off, before you take the card out.
  • Notes are yours. You can edit them on a computer and they show up on the device; the clean-up never offers them for deletion.
  • Don't rename the top-level folders. The firmware looks for them by name.
  • Logs stop at 90% full, so the remaining space is kept for captures. The Storage App's Maintenance shows what is using the card and clears old logs and captures, after showing what it would free.