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Anndria Nelson Posted on Jul 09, 2007

Not enough space to listen

When I turn on my MP3 player it says "Not eoungh space for music DB. Please free 8MB". But I can't get to any other menues to delet anything. When I plug it in and go to Windows Media Player it says that there are no files on the player. But it won't allow me to add any more.

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How do you take songs off the sansa m250 mp3 player it says go to My computer and i clicked on the "Sansa m250 (J:) drive" and it does not show the songs i have on there. Is there any other way to view them so i can delete them?There is some really stupid songs i want to take off so please help!

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I got this solved tonight. I formatted my m250 as a FAT32 partition, filled 2GB with songs, and when I disconnected the player I got this message. I reconnected the m250 to the computer, deleted a 10 MB song, disconnected the m250, and the database was built. Some tips: if setting the switch to hold still leaves you in MTP mode, go into the menus and changed it manually to MSC. Under linux the command to format is mkfs.vfat. If all else fails the m250 can be formatted as FAT16, to be a 512MB device. I had it like this for weeks, but tried again tonight to get back to 2GB, and it worked!

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If it''s any consolation, the same thing happened to me after I loaded about 1.6 GB (~250 MB left) of music on my Sansa m250. I tried to delete the required 8MB, but the directory structure got destroyed to the point where my computer wouldn''t recognize the device. I called their technical support and they''re having me send it back to them for a replacement! It''s not you, but the player! I don''t know if there''s anything that can be done from a consumer standpoint.

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