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    Issue seeing files on SD card on Ender 5 Plus

    I want to start of by saying I am new to 3d Printing, and have come across an issue. The first time I printed something was today. the first thing I printed was a 200X 200 test pattern that I resized to 300X300. i then Printed a Benchy and my first attempt did not stay stuck to the bed, but my second one came out great. I then wanted to print a XYZ calibration cube, and here is where I had an issue. I sliced it using Cura 4.9 and transferred it to a SD card but when I inserted it into my printer, it could not find the file on the card. because the same card was used to print the Benchy, I thought that maybe the file I downloaded from Thingiverse had a problem. I decided to try to print something else and decided on a Covid Tool from Thingiverse, and sliced and added it to the same card, inserted it into the printer and selected it for printing. No here is the issue: Even though I selected the Covid Tool File, and the printer said it was printing the Covid Tool on its display, it printed the XYZ Calibration Cube. Has anyone seen this issue?

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    Super Moderator curious aardvark's Avatar
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    With the cheaper chinese machines the sd cards are total junk.
    So it's probably the card.
    Can't see creality coughing up for an actual branded card, it'll probably be a nasty clone of some kind.

    Get a cheap but branded 4 or 8 gb card from amazon. I like sandisk. Never had a duff sandisk product.

    It might also be the card reader - but the odds are good it's just a crappy sd card.
    The boards and screen creality use are decent.

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    Thanks for the reply, I am not using the card or caddy they gave me with the printer, tried multiple cards as well, could be the reader on the motherboard. am getting a silent board on Wed, hopefully the new board doesn't have the same problem.

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    found the solution, got any card working. it is the file name lenght that is stopping the printer from reading the name. Once you shorten the name, it works fine

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    Super Moderator curious aardvark's Avatar
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    weird - never had that.
    But never had a creality machine either :-)

    glad you got it sorted though :-)

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