Sony ICD-55 - Manual (Page 16)

Erasing Messages
You can erase the recorded messages one by one or all messages in a file at
a time.
Note that once a recording has been erased, you cannot retrieve it.
Erasing messages one by one
When a message is erased, the remaining messages will advance and
renumbered so that there will be no space between messages.
{Message 11 Message 2 \ I[Message 41 Message S|
Erase Message 3 ^
1 Message 11 Message 2 ¡Message 3 I Message 4 1
Remaining messages are renumbered.
- 0 Press ERASE while playing back the message 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 the message is played back 10 times.
(D Press ERASE while the message is being played
back.
The message is erased and the remaining messages
will be renumbered.
To cancel erasing
Press STOP before step (D.
To erase other messages
Repeat steps 0 and ®.
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