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Question for the Sandisk Sansa m200 series owners

Jan 24, 2006 6:42AM PST

I have the m250 and was wondering how you can tell how many files and how much space your using on the player?
I tried right-clicking, on the drive via Windows Explorer, but i don't see the 'properties' option where you can view diskspace, etc..

Also, i saw a post somewhere that said you can format the drive to get the full 2GB storage instead of like 1.7 or something. How do you do that?

Thanks

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Let's see...
Jan 24, 2006 12:03PM PST

To find out how much music is on your player, go to the menu on the player and scroll down. I can't remember the name of the menu, but it's something like About ... or Info or something. It will tell you how many files you have on the player and how much space they take up.

As to the 2GB formatting, I don't think it's possible. You always lose some space between the OS files and the discrepency between bits and bytes (as I remember, but please correct me if it's wrong).

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oops, also
Jan 24, 2006 12:10PM PST

I own the M250, and I start with 1.9gb available. not sure why you have just 1.7? but I agree, not sure you can get the full 2.0

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m250
Jan 25, 2006 4:47AM PST

I didn't mean it was just 1.7 gb, i was just giving an example.
thanks for the responses, i'll check it out later.
So far i love this player, except for the playlist issue. Hopefully Sandisk will update firware and make it capable of doing PLs.

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You can make playlists with WMP 10
Feb 27, 2006 2:32PM PST

give it a shot from the songs in your "My Music" directory.

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a few ways...
Jan 24, 2006 12:09PM PST

1) On the Actual MP3 device
- go to the menu
- scroll to the 'Information' section
- select information the SCROLL DOWN - it should not # of songs and used and free space

2) Within Window Media Player 10.0
- Plug MP3 Player in
- Go to Sync tab
(FYI - I assume this 2nd one works for all MP3s)