How to erase a recording? - Olympus VN-480 PC Digital Voice Recorder

1. Slide the HOLD?POWER ON/OFF switch in the direction of "POWER ON/OFF" to turn on the IC recorder, or towards the center to release the IC recorder from the HOLD status. The stop mode window appears.
2. Select the file you want to erase when the IC recorder is in the stop or playback mode.
3. Erase a selected file. When the IC recorder is in the stop mode, press and hold ERASE.
   When the IC recorder is in the playback mode, press ERASE.
   
   
4. Press ERASE. "ACCESS" appears in the display window and the selected file will be erased.
   When a file is erased, the remaining files will advance so that there will be no space between files.

Hint

• To cancel erasing, press (stop) in step 3.
• To erase a part of a file, divide the file into two files first, and then proceed with steps 3 through 4.

1.Press the FOLDER button to choose a folder.
Every time the FOLDER button is pressed, it cycles through folders and the List display will appear (+P20).

2 Press the + or – button to choose the file you want to erase.

3 Press the ERASE button. The “Cancel” indicator flashes.

4 Press the + button to choose “Erase”.

5 Press the OK button. The display changes to “File Erase!” and erasing will start. “Erase Done” is displayed when the file is erased. File numbers will be reassigned automatically

Hello you can erase the recorded messages one by one or all massages in folder at time

Note once a recording has been erased, you cannot retrieve it.

Erasing messages one by one

1 Press ERASE while playing back the massage you want to erase or press ERASE for more than 1 second during stop mode.

A beep will sound and the message number and "ERASE" will flash while the first and last 5 seconds of message is played back 10 times

2 Press ERASE while the message is being played back.

The message is erase and the remaining messages will be renumbered. (For example, if you erase Message 3. When erasing is completed, the unit will stop at beginning of the following message.)

Erasing all messages in a folder

1 Press FOLDER to select the folder you want to erase.

2 While pressing STOP, press ERASE for more than 1 second.

"ALL ERASE" will flash for 10 seconds

While the display is flashing, press ERASE.

While holding the 'Erase' button down, press the 'Rewind' or "Fast Forward' button. It will erase the tape while it rewinds or fast forwards.

You have to select the file to erase hold the erase button and when "ERASE" blinks in the display you have to press the erase button one more time. Do this for each file you wants to erase.

Select the file, then press erase and follow the display. If you hold down erase, you should get an erase all option. Also you can select Format in the menu.

Press Menu to select the folder you want to erase from. Press |>> or <<| (next or previous) to select which recording to erase. Press ERASE once. The bottom display should read DELETE. Hold down the ERASE button to confirm the erasure, and the file is erased.

To select your message to erase depress REC/STOP button. Then "scroll" thru recordings by using the "rocker" style switch on the upper right side of recorder labeled INDEX. When you have the recording on the LCD display you wish to erase, depress the ERASE button for more than a second and release when the display starts blinking "ERASE" - then depress the ERASE button again and the recording will be erased. Do the same for each numbered recording to fully erase all recordings.

I called the Future Shop where I bought the recorder and the salesman looked at the manual online and saw that the Delete instructions do not tell you what you need to know.

To Erase or Delete recordings from this recorder, you have to select the track or file you want to erase, hit the Erase button, see that track number flashing THEN hold the Erase button down for a full second.

You can toggle until ALL comes up and then erase all your files at once if you wish.

You can also hit the Erase button first and then select the track you want recorded. The important thing to know is that you then have to see the number flashing THEN hold the Erase button down for a full second.

In reading the pamphlet that came with mine, I noticed that it says that when a recording is made , the previous recording is automatically erased. I guess you can only erase it by recording over it, which is stupid.....I can't believe they didn't put an erase button on it!