So I have some files at work that I decided to take home with me. I plug in my Sansa, cut and paste the folder with the files, and book. When my train finally comes (and the crappy service of the CTA is a whole other thread that I’m actually pretty surprised no one else has started, but then you yuppies all probably drive everywhere, even 6 blocks down the street to Walgreens) I let some determined woman shove her way in front of me, and I hide my smirk when it turns out there weren’t any seats left anyway. I switch on my Sansa View, only to find… nothing. No playlists. No music at all. None of my YGO Abridged videos either. Somehow plugging a View into a strange new computer automatically erases everything. Nice.
Hmm…I’ve been thinking of replacing my Sansa Clip that has decided to stop holding a charge with a Sansa Fuze, but now I’m not so sure I want to do that. I’ve been trying to avoid jumping on the iPod bandwagon, but maybe I should anyway.
A similar thing happened to me with a Sansa m240 mp3 player and Windows XP. However, when I plugged it in again and let the autoplay run, the files came back. Your files are probably still there, just “hidden.”
I had an Ipod Mini before I got the Sansa. I’ve dropped the mini several times, and its casing is chipped and scratched, and the plastic on top is popped up and won’t go back down, but it still works. I’ve never had any problem with it besides the fact that it runs through its charge like water through a sieve.
I got a Sansa because it had more memory and was cheaper than a comparably sized Ipod. Also, I hate I-Tunes. But this mp3 player is turning out to be more trouble than it’s worth. I’ve got it hooked up now, and WMP is showing that I’m using 6 MB when there’s clearly nothing on the damn device. Not in the Media Library, not in My Computer. Grrr.
LittlePlasticNinja, who the hell is Sansa Stark? Is that from A Song of Ice and Fire?
Omegaman, I did nothing that I wasn’t supposed to do. And walking is better for your health.
The Sansa Fuze I bought my daughter stopped working after less than 24 hours. Completely frozen. Won’t charge, won’t power on, won’t do anything. It was working fine at first. We put in an SD card full of music and then we hooked it up and started transferring data from the card to the internal memory. About halfway through it said “the player has been disconnected unexpectedly” and stopped copying songs. We couldn’t get it to resume copying songs. Then she listened to it a bit longer and it died. Just died.
We’ve had horrible luck with the med-range players. This is the second which has died on us since Christmas. Different brands and styles. We even looked this one up and it got 4 stars on cNET. Very disappointed.
I think your sansa switched USB modes on you. Try monkeying with that. If it finds a computer it can’t enter synch mode with, it automatically reverts to drag and drop mode.
What kind of Sansa is it? XP, and I assume vista, has some shitty support for MP3 players in general. At some point in the future, it will try to install drives even though they are PNP, or it will try to make it an MTP, where it was never meant to be. It only gets worse if you get WMP 11. Sometimes, when you put files on it, it doesn’t put them in a place that’s accessible by the Sansa. Sometimes it puts them as just data and everytime you turn the Sansa on it has to “refresh the database.” And still other times it’s simple drag and drop and everything is ok.
The beast did switch modes on me, but my files weren’t showing up in either mode, not even after I refreshed, unplugged, turned it off, and restarted it. I ended up just deleting everything, and now I’m slowly refilling it, because this piece of crap won’t let me sync all my playlists at once. AARRGGGHHHH!
And VinylTurnip, who said anything about pirated music?
E-Sabbath, I probably will try Winamp. I finally got all my music re-transferred, but it kept clicking (I’m not sure if it was the player or the USB port) and stopping in the middle of syncing. Time to switch interfaces.
I’m not? You ever had a leg run over by a car? It was a compact car, but it fucked my ass up for life.
You realize my second post was a joke, right?
I see people with no legs and it puts me right in my place, disability wise. I was more offended by being included in the yuppie category if you must know the truth.
