Hello I was sampling some really great distorted bass lines and my +Drive became full. The DT just pretended to have saved it! Now I have these useless slots. Thanks Elektron.
I wish there was a warning message like, hey +Drive full sample is not saveable.
Let this be a warning to all you out there.
Indeed. 1Gb +Drive is too damn small.
I would love it if Elektron brought out an eternal card reader that could be connected via usb (not sure if that would even be possible).
Ranting here is not doing much for your cause, only venting your frustration (and, IMHO and with all due respect, slightly offloading your own responsibility).
I advise to take the time to drop a feature-request@elektron.se so that they keep this in mind.
True. I was being curt and genuinely surprised at this behavior. It’s a good thing that I have filled up the +Drive because this means I am using the machine more. I will file a ticket with them.
This is what I sent them:
When booting up the machine warn the user that the +Drive is nearing capacity maybe do this at 98% capacity. I know some users perpetually have a full +Drive. There should be a way to disable this alert from the settings or change the threshold i.e 75%. After writing a sample to the machine this threshold should be checked and it should warn the user if they have reached the limit.
When sampling with a full +Drive I was able to playback the sample, this made me assume that it was saved. However, when I went to assign the sample there was an empty bar in the space column and it didn’t playback. At this point I had spent time sampling multiple instruments. The machine was still able to write metadata about the sample, but not actually save the sample. The sample I heard was the one retained in memory.
When I went to delete samples I accidentally clicked delete folder so I lost a lot more work by accident. Again would love some more dialogue here i.e. are you sure? I know its not seamless but for clumsy folks like me it would be nice to have more barriers in place.
Very good points. 
I’m all for a startup alert with a threshold!
Note that when you backup, samples are automatically downloaded and part of the save.
So if all your projects are saved, you can theoretically do a factory reset.
I don’t, personally, but I can delete large folders of samples without too much thinking.