Hi everyone! I’m sure this has been posted before but I couldn’t find it through the search function. My computer still registers my fuze (8gb), but now it no longer registers the music on the fuze.
My player was working fine this morning, but then I made the mistake of attaching the Fuze while Windows Media Center was running. When I did that, it said, “Updating external media device.” I tried to cancel, but it wouldn’t let me.
Now, when I plug my fuze into the computer, it says I’ve used 6 gb, while before I had only used 2 gb. What the heck did Windows Media Center put on my fuze, how do I get it off, and what do I do to make my computer register the songs that are on there? (The computer registers that 6 gb have been used, but when I open the files - music, podcasts, playlists, etc - they are all empty.
Please help! I use my fuze constantly at work everyday, so not having it in perfect working order feels sort of like missing a limb.
There are 2 didffernt USB modes in which to add content (music, etc.), MTP & MSC. MTP is Microsoft Transfer Protocol and is the method used when ‘syncing’ music, etc. from your computer to your portable device. This is what I assume happened when you plugged in your Fuze while the Media Center was running. It ‘assumed’ you wanted (by default settings) to ‘sync’ this device, hence the now 6GB used reading.
MSC, or Mass Storage Class makes your device appear as just another flash-based storage device, like a memory card or USB stick. The thing is, files added in one mode are not visible or accessible via your computer while connected in the other mode.
Now, just to make things even more fun . . . there’s a 3rd setting on your Fuze. I lovingly refer to it as ‘Auto-Defect’. This leaves it up to the player and the computer to detect & decide what USB mode to connect in. It will connect in MTP by default if possible but if not, then MSC mode will engaged.
So, I’m thinking Windows Media Center ‘synced’ everything but the kitchen sink to your Fuze, but you can’t see any of it because you are connected (and looking) in the other mode.
So in short, switch to the other USB mode and see if all these files miraculously appear. Then you’ve got the fun of going through and deleting everything you don’t want. It may be simpler & quicker to just re-format the Fuze and re-load your 2GB worth, rather than trying to delete 4GB a few files at a time.
And then, for Heaven’s sake, go into the settings of Windows Media Center and switch off the ‘Automatic Syncing’ function!
Woo hoo! Tapeworm, you’ve done it! I went in and switched my USB mode and now everything is registering. I still have no idea what Media Center loaded on there, though. 4gb of…something. I’ll probably end up reformatting and just throwing everything back on that I had before the Media Center Fiasco of 2009.
ok, how do you re-format this fuze… I have sort of the same problem… my fuze is telling me that “not enough space for music DB , please free 90mb,” then the fuze shuts off not allowing me to delete anything.
