Error message Sony ICD-MX20 Handheld Digital Voice Recorder When ask is to record get a message that says "file damaged" - how do you reformat this / fix it?

the workaround seems to be

buy an Olympus recorder (supposedly they issued a patch for DNS 10 in a couple of days)

or

tell DNS that the source is a PDA generating WAV, MP3, etc.

havn't tried this myself yet. some say it it isn't that awful. But I too am very dissappointed.

This voice recorder have auto power off function so does not have particular power on-off button, press play/ record to turn on and leave it for some time to turn off automatically.

Display the folder o message in the folder that you want to erase.
Press Menu and select Erase by using up arrow down arrow and then press play stop button, the cursor moves to erase menu.
Press up arrow down arrows to select erases all the messages or message in a folder.
Press up or down arrow to confirm say yes and press play
Press stop to exit.

How can I comunicate an ICD-MX20 with my mac

Go to the menu and go to the format option and press enter. This worked for me :). Make sure you have everything backed up.

If you press and hold down the "menu" button scroll down to the FORMAT selection and press enter. This will reformat the device.
I had the same problem - I think it arose after disconnecting the IC Recorder when it became unresponsive with the computer.
Make sure you transfer all your files first to a computer or back up source.

Hiya HKL1, incase you've still got the problem with your recorder i thought i'd post a solution. I think you may have renamed the folders after saving your data onto your computer, i dont know how i did it but i did! so the recorder isnt recognising the folders as the ones they started with so you have to format/reset the recorder. good luck =)

i have a recorder icd-mx20 and when i connect it to computer it show usb device is not recongized help me my email is [email protected]

Sony has posted the intructions at http://www.iq.sony.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=77,E=0000000000714635791,K=6871,Sxi=1,Case=obj(411462),VARSET_OBJ=411462,VARSET_TSRC=results,UseTemplate=case.tem,VARSET_TOP=TRUE The steps aren't very intuitive and they are not in the cocumentation that came with my unit.

Replace the memory stick.