How do I set the time on an Alba. Model ET858 digital voice recorder

They're available on line, but they're not free:
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I am having problems finding an online version of the manual anywhere. If you have access to one, try a copy machine and use the magnification button on it to scale it up to a readable size.

http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dic-notetakers/icdb16/tab/manual

This is the page for the user manuals. Unfortunately they don't have them in Polish. Good luck =D

To delete a file from this dictaphone, scroll to find the file you want to delete then press the down button labelled A-B/X and hold for a few seconds. Screen will then show 001 DEL.. quickly move to press the play button which acts as yes.And... file deleted!

DID YOU FIND INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR ALBA ET858 DIGITAL ?

I hope to find the solution

did you manage to get this sorted? i have the same problem!

Hi all,

I recently bought this little headache of a dictation machine to help me with my Law revision. Had similar problems but have worked out the following:

The machine appears to have 2 modes of recording - LP and SP. When the machine is in LP mode, it appears to be a format for the machine itself to allow for longer record time. Because of this individual format it will not play back on computers. If, however, you change it to SP mode (from what I can ascertain from the VERY unhelpful user manual is 'high quality recording' i.e. standard WAV format) it saves the file in a .wav format which is playable on computers.

To switch it from LP to SP (this is on my dictation machine only - i take absolutely no responsibility for breakages etc):

Turn on
Press 'M' to cycle to 'REC' mode
Use the Volume control to cycle between SP, SP VOR (no idea what VOR is i'm afriad), LP and LP VOR
Record as usual.

I've made test recordings on both SP and SP VOR and both save to WAV format and can be played back through a computer.

If anyone knows what VOR is then please shout back.

Hope this helps.

Liam

You can schedule for automatic recording, specifying the start time
and end time of recording. When the timer-controlled recording
completes, the setting is released.
In Menu mode selection... SET, On, OFF→After selecting SET, press the PLAY button to set the time to start the recording.