“Building the Database” means that it’s “taking inventory” of the files, reading the names and the tags so that it can display them in the menu. It does this everytime you turn it on to check for added, removed or changed files. The more files there are, the longer it takes to “Build the Database”. Larger cards obviously can contain more files, so it takes longer when they are filled up.
It does take time, but if it didn’t do this, file corruption could occur, and you also wouldn’t know exactly what songs were on it.
There is some debate as to whether it should do this everytime, or only when the content is changed. I don’t know if the Express has any way to know if the content is changed, so maybe doing it everytime is a precaution. There is no way for the user to speed it up, and since the Express has been discontinued, I doubt Sandisk will offer any more updates.
Message Edited by jkj1962 on 02-02-2009 09:08 PM
