Sansa Clip+ MP3-Player >> "Not enough space for music DB. Please free 90MB."

Here is how i fixed the problem after dropping my player and getting the same message (only mine said delete 30MB).

The Sansa udater would not recognize that it was even plugged in, so I went the long way 'round, so to speak…

I have Sansa Clip 2GB, Windows XP, (sp3).

When I plug the player into the computer, Windows opened the “install new hardware” Wizard.  I selected to choose

to install software online “this time only”.  It did its thing for awhile.  When done, it registered as “USB storage device”

–in my case–drive E.  Now it’s acting like a flash drive for storage, however…(and I’m not sure this was necessary)

I formatted it, by right clicking, and choosing “format” in that dialogue…o.k., so i lost some stuff I had on it…

you go here; http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Clip-Clip/Sansa-Clip-Firmware-01-01-35-amp-02-01-35-Release/td-p/144965

and I selected the 2 point something firmware update at the bottom.  It’ll say put it in your main directory or something,

at this point you only have one on the Clip, the drive itself.

So, after checking the download for viruses, I unzipped it, in Win Explorer.  You’ll see a small file as a result of this in

the right hand pane of Explorer.  Simply drag and drop it into the drive letter represented by the Clip.  Then unplug it when it’s

been copied to the Sansa…

I can’t recall if it starts updating right then, but If it doesn’t , shut it off and turn it on again.  You just have to wait a sec for

it to do its thing.

Mine seems to be back to normal; with one quirk…in System under total bytes used, it says it’s about half full.  I haven’t

used it yet for mp3, but the radio and everything else works, so I got busy and reset all the settings I had on it.

Hope this helps.

I was finally able to reformat my player by plugging it into a different computer.  For some unknown reason my computer would not recognize the player and trying to reformat it crashed the “disk management” program.  For others with the same problem, follow this link and make sure to attach your player in MSC mode (also explained in the link).

Windows has a “cheat sheet” containing a list of all devices it has previously recognized.  If there is a problem in the registry entry for the Sansa, it will not be recognized.

If you manually connect in MSC mode, open the Device Manager and find the Sansa under the USB Root Hub (it may even have a little yellow triangle flag next to it.  Right click on the device and select uninstall.   Unplug the device and wait at least 30 seconds, then try plugging in again.

The Sansa should then be recognized normally.

Bob  :stuck_out_tongue:

Hey you can try out some of the solution that has been mentioned here, just check it out and see if they are helping you or not.

@khalnayak wrote:

Hey you can try out some of the solution that has been mentioned here, just check it out and see if they are helping you or not.

All of which was already mentioned earlier in this thread and can be found in SanDisk’s own searchable KnowledgeBase Support Center, but thanks anyway. :wink:

I faced the same problem and solved it using the “SD formatter” software.

The format does not erase the sansa system files.

You can download it from the SD Association

I have tried all the solutions on this site to fix my clip . I have found the best way to fix it. You will need a good pair of steel toed boots and a hammer .Lay your clip on a hard surface and hit it as hard as you can with the hammer, them stomp on it with your steel toed boots. This works great, now go out and by a IPOD!!!  It is the only thing that worked.

Sorry you hadn’t posted here–perhaps people here could have helped you.

@hadenough wrote:

I have tried all the solutions on this site to fix my clip . I have found the best way to fix it. You will need a good pair of steel toed boots and a hammer .Lay your clip on a hard surface and hit it as hard as you can with the hammer, them stomp on it with your steel toed boots. This works great, now go out and by a IPOD!!!  It is the only thing that worked.

Disregarding the fact that this solution is excessive over-kill (and probably totally unnecessary in the first place given the assistance provided on this forum and from the available SanDisk Customer Service/Tech Support), I fail to see how the toes (steel or otherwise) of your boots are going to affect the impact of the heels (or soles) on the target device. :confounded: :neutral_face: :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, that’s right. doPi players never have problems. Good luck with that. 

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/ipod-faq/ipod-troubleshooting-wont-turn-on-appear-hung-sad.html

Hello there,

I have the very same problem Dannefel has. Despite all the ideas that came up, none worked for me. I wish I could format the sansa player, but how to format something that is not recognised as a usb device on the first place ?

I also tried to plug a micro SD card (well, it says it needs more space, so I tried that…) and it doesn’t change a thing.

I really spend a lot of time trying to find a solution to this, without any success.

Thanks for your help.

What steps have you tried?

Have you tried changing Settings/System Settings/USB Mode to MSC. 

Have you tried holding down the home button and various combinations of << or >> or > or while connecting.

Have you tried a different USB cord. 

Have you tried a different USB port on your computer.

Have you tried a different computer. 

Have you tried Settings/System Setttings/Format on the unit itself. 

Have you tried calling 1-866-SANDISK or the customer service number in your country. 

Hello, 

I too, have been getting the same error message (Not enough space…) on my Sansa Clip+ 4GB.

I am unable to try reformatting my player because when I connect to my computer, while it is recognized (not as SansaClip like it used to be, but as Removable Disk F: I cannot right click on the link to that drive. It locks up my explorer panel  - essentially just hangs and I have to force a close of my Explorer window. 

I have tried using a different computer with the same result.

I’m thinking that I could try to reformat using DOS, would that work? Is there something else I should try instead?

I am also confused on the whole MSC/MTP modes. I’ve tried connecting to my computer while holding the center button on the front of my player, but I notice no difference either in the players display or the way my computer sees the player. How do I know if I did it correctly?

Please help! I’m afraid it’s now a brick :cry:

If you have, or can borrow, another USB-miniUSB cord, from a camera or phone, try that. It could just be a cord problem.

In MSC mode, two drives should show up on your PC. One is the Clip, the other–Removable Disc–is the card slot. If there’s no card in the card slot then your PC could get very confused. Are you sure you are not trying to format an empty card slot?  

Another possibility: somehow your player’s USB mode got switched to MTP.

Disconnect it. Take out the microSD card if one is in there.

Turn it on.

Go to Settings/System Settings/USB Mode and make it MSC. Connect it and see if Sansa Clip reappears. 

I recently had this issue but maybe because I use Linux I was still able to mount the Clip and delete the excess files.  I’m not sure how Windows works but both Macs and Linux create a hidden folder .Trash-0000 where all your deleted files go so you can restore them.  This folder occupies space on your drive and must be deleted. 

This info worked great for me…so far…

I have a Mac and was simple, but I had to erase everything from the clip. Thanks, Theodora 

With a Mac, leave Settings/System Settings/USB set to MSC. 

Hi guys! I have Ubuntu 12.04 Linux on my PC and I had the same issue, “not enough space” message and my PC couldn’t see the sansa disk drive. When I plugged my Sansa there were messages:

May 10 13:53:06 ilia-gateway kernel: [13563.956532] scsi14 : usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
May 10 13:53:07 ilia-gateway kernel: [13564.956272] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa Clip+ 4GB  v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
May 10 13:53:07 ilia-gateway kernel: [13564.956939] scsi 14:0:0:1: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa Clip+ 4GB  v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
May 10 13:53:07 ilia-gateway kernel: [13564.958365] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
May 10 13:53:07 ilia-gateway kernel: [13564.958517] sd 14:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
May 10 13:53:07 ilia-gateway kernel: [13564.960390] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] 7683072 512-byte logical blocks: (3.93 GB/3.66 GiB)

I fixed this with gparted application which is kind of disk manager for Ubuntu. I removed the old corrupted partition table and created a new fat32 partition on the device /dev/sdb. I had my Sansa working after this formatting.

Hope it could help someone, even if you don’t have installed Ubuntu on your laptop you can try boot from an Ubuntu live disk from flash drive and try to fix Sansa.

Hi everybody.

In my case gparted changed partition table and this was the first step, program was still not able to format partition, i was back to pc and than format by the sd formatter. Now it’s done and the device working like a charm :slight_smile: