This afternoon, I had lots of problems trying to send a print job to my A1 Mini. It would slowly begin downloading on the machine and then stall and fail after 10-15 minutes. I even tried moving the device to a different network, which had a much stronger signal, but that didn’t make much difference. Advice online suggested looking at whether the computer clock was properly synchronised with online time servers but that didn’t help either.

I ended up firing up my laptop (with an SD card reader) and transferring the file onto it. While doing that, I noticed that there was a ‘cache’ folder with lots of files related to things I have previously printed. I wondered if there was an issue with the number of files, even though the card reported having plenty of spare room. I decided to delete them anyway and then successfully printed what I was after direct from the card.

Afterwards, I sent another print job across the network and that one worked perfectly. Could the file deletion have been an issue? If it happens again, that will probably be the thing I try first. There are plenty more things I want to print so it probably won’t be too long if it is the case.