sansa clip+ doesn't show up on mac el capitan

[plutrea]

hello everyone, the sansaclip+ works, it plays songs and when i connect it to the usb port it charges, the problem is that it doesn’t appear on the mac. the mac doesn’t show it on the desktop, doesn’t show it in utility disk nor in the system report under the usb category, so the mac does not recognize the device anymore.

it worked normally until a week or so ago. i tried to format it, i tried to set the usb mode to msc, mtc or auto detect and nothing works. what can i do? now my device is completely empty and not usable. i have tried to connect it to a linux pc with ubuntu on and it doesn’t show up there either.

what can i do???

[tapeworm]

Try a different cable. Just because it charges doesn’t mean the data portion of the cable doesn’t have a break in it.

[plutrea]

i can’t try another cable because this device doesn’t use a normal mini-usb so i only have this one

[miikerman]

Yes, the Clíp+ indeed does use a standard mini-B USB cable–any should work.

[tapeworm]

And they are cheap enough; you could buy one.

[texadactyl]

As delivered, the USB Mode setting of the Sansa SanDisk is set to “Auto Detect”.  The Auto Detect USB Mode is not compatible with Ubuntu for some reason in that the disk images cannot be mounted.  I have not tried this with other Linux distros to date.

For Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distros), simply set the USB Mode on the Sansa to either MTP or MSC - both work.

For MacOS Sierra, I used the short USB cable that came with the Sansa product to connect - no issues at all, even in Sansa “Auto Detect” mode.  Since I am no longer running “El Capitan”, I couldn’t say whether it works or not.  Can you upgrade to Sierra?