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So I found this handy little utility of Windows' called SyncToy. And I am no longer synchronizing my files between my hard drive and computer by hand, baby. Excellence. (It's the first thing that comes up when you Google "SyncToy", if anyone's interested.)
Avoided a catastrophy with my MP3 player. It froze, basically. And I did everything possible to try and fix it--rebooted, plugged in to the computer, took out the battery to see if it would reset, everything. I sent in a support request to the Sandisk people, and the next day, still nothing from them (I'm guessing they don't work on Fridays). But then, I managed to find out that there's a reset function if you do twenty different things at once and hold half the buttons and stand on your head and run a certain program while doing so and are okay with wiping the player. (I wasn't too enthused about the last because I had stuff on there I didn't have anywhere else, but then again, what can you do?)
I'm still not withdrawing the service request. They need to know that this is going on, and they need to know that I'm not happy with their machine. I mean, I love the screen of this thing; it's excellently colored and terribly sharp, and it's a fine MP3 player if it weren't for the fact that I keep running into glitches with it. First the software doesn't work on my computer (for no reason they can come up with), then everything's got to be in the specific format for the player, so without the software I can't use the video or photo functions (meaning if I want any of that stuff, I've got to borrow my dad's laptop, which he doesn't allow that often), then the specific format the video has to be in is possibly the largest they could possibly fathom (I tried to load a 90mb file through the converter, and idk how large it turned out exactly, but it wouldn't fit on the player when I had c. 400mb left), there's no power cord (or even hole for any kind of normal power cord), so if you've got no computer, no charging can be had (and the replacement cords and car chargers and stuff only began to come out a few months ago, and as such are only in a few stores and v. expensive), and now the "Refreshing Database" freezing.
O AND ILU2, CATHRYN.
Avoided a catastrophy with my MP3 player. It froze, basically. And I did everything possible to try and fix it--rebooted, plugged in to the computer, took out the battery to see if it would reset, everything. I sent in a support request to the Sandisk people, and the next day, still nothing from them (I'm guessing they don't work on Fridays). But then, I managed to find out that there's a reset function if you do twenty different things at once and hold half the buttons and stand on your head and run a certain program while doing so and are okay with wiping the player. (I wasn't too enthused about the last because I had stuff on there I didn't have anywhere else, but then again, what can you do?)
I'm still not withdrawing the service request. They need to know that this is going on, and they need to know that I'm not happy with their machine. I mean, I love the screen of this thing; it's excellently colored and terribly sharp, and it's a fine MP3 player if it weren't for the fact that I keep running into glitches with it. First the software doesn't work on my computer (for no reason they can come up with), then everything's got to be in the specific format for the player, so without the software I can't use the video or photo functions (meaning if I want any of that stuff, I've got to borrow my dad's laptop, which he doesn't allow that often), then the specific format the video has to be in is possibly the largest they could possibly fathom (I tried to load a 90mb file through the converter, and idk how large it turned out exactly, but it wouldn't fit on the player when I had c. 400mb left), there's no power cord (or even hole for any kind of normal power cord), so if you've got no computer, no charging can be had (and the replacement cords and car chargers and stuff only began to come out a few months ago, and as such are only in a few stores and v. expensive), and now the "Refreshing Database" freezing.
O AND ILU2, CATHRYN.