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Not enough space for music DB. Please free 90MB

My daughter has a Sansa SanDisk Fuze MP3 player. Everything worked great with our mac for the first day. Now, when we connect to the the mac, it message "Not enough space for music DB. Please free 90MB" appears on the SanDisk screen and the computer locks up?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Remove the microSD card and then delete one or more files from the Sansa's internal memory to free up an additional 90MB.

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SOURCE: "Not enough space for music DB. Please free 90MB"

What has happened is that when you connected the device to the computer if automatically downloaded everything on your media files thus filling up your MP3 player
You need to go in and delete the files you do not want. click the bottom part of the disk or dial and it will show a menu to delete FIRST,
you must let the battery run down(disconnect the cable and when the battery has discharged, you can plug it back in to recharge, then you can work with it to delete some of those files that are overloading you device This happened to me and this was the only way to unlock it when it locked up

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Here's the support site for Sandisk Sansa Fuze:
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3249/session/L3NpZC93dDhKSlRaag%3D%3D/sno/0
Directly to the Sansa Fuze user manual:
http://mp3support.sandisk.com/sansa/UserManual/FUZE/fuze_userguide_en.pdf

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What has happened is that when you connected the device to the computer if automatically downloaded everything on your media files thus filling up your MP3 player
You need to go in and delete the files you do not want. click the bottom part of the disk or dial and it will show a menu to delete FIRST,
you must let the battery run down(disconnect the cable and when the battery has discharged, you can plug it back in to recharge, then you can work with it to delete some of those files that are overloading you device This happened to me and this was the only way to unlock it when it locked up
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