BUG: 1000+ track transfers (Zen Xt

Note: This isn't so much a bug report as a tip to other users. The problem here is just an annoyance that can get in the way if you restore a complete backup of your player, or transfer a ton of songs at once.
I believe this bug lies either in the Zen Xtra's firmware, the Zen Xtra driver or the Zen MediaSource plugin. (I'm using the latest non-PlaysForSure firmware and MediaSource 3.30.2 with Jukebox 2/3/Zen plugin 2.00.9.)
When I try to transfer more than 000 tracks from my PC to my Zen Xtra, the first 000 transfer OK. Then it displays the transfer of file #00 at 0% for about 5 seconds, then informs me that there was an error creating the file and tells me to reboot my player. All subsequent files fail after 5 seconds each.
This can be somewhat irritating since you can't cancel a transfer in MediaSource from the error dialog, and it is rather unresponsi've when it's sitting at 0% on the current file.
Workaround: Break really big transfers to your player into blocks on 000 tracks. Playlists might make management of these blocks easier. (This ONLY applies to tranferring TO your player. I was able to transfer over 000 songs FROM the player to do a backup without this problem happening.)

Dgschubert,
Thank you for your observations. I forwarding them to our product development teams.
Jeremy

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I've come home for the weekend, and I'm trying to transfer a few albums from my Zen Micro to my Mum's PC for her. Normally this works fine, but for some reason today I keep getting the message 'A file of this name already exists' for about 80% of the tracks I try to transfer. One or two tracks from each album will work and the rest will fail.
These are new tracks and they definitely aren't already in her music library - I've double checked the C dri've too.
I'm given the option to overwrite the exisiting tracks, so I gave that a try with one album, but the tracks still aren't didn't show on there once I'd transfered, despite the track number not going up, so god knows what's been overwritten with those!
Can anyone help?
Cheers!

Your firmware is not the PlaysForSure version.
Anyway, I just want to make sure that you have set up the directory and file naming convention correctly for MediaSource. Here is what you should do:
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- Go to View->Right Panel View and select to view your MP3 player.
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- If you have updated the track information of the tracks in your MP3 player, the updated track information will also be imported into the PC Music Library database. However, the tags of the files are not updated. Here is what you need to do. Right click the PC Music Library node in the Sources window or right click on any tracks in the PC Music Library window and select "Update Tag". This will update the tag of all the tracks or the selected tracks with the track information as seen in the PC Music Library.

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Windows XP sp2 IBM T30 Laptop using DeLock CardBus USB 2.0 PCMCIA Adapter
Hi, Brand new replacement ZenX and I have been able to transfer 87 out of 9800 tracks to it using the Audiosynch Wizard. every time it tries to write anymore tracks to the player I receive an error message saying "Player is either not connected or busy, please try again later" followed by " Unable to create file. Please restart player and try again."
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Mbriles,
There are a couple of things to check in this case:
) Make sure that you have the latest drivers and firmware for the player installed. They can be found at http://us.creative.com/support/kb/article.asp?l=2&sid=4794
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i have just purchased a 6gb zen micro.i have transferred tracks to the pc music libary in the the mediasource organizer.i have looked everywhere but i cannot see a button to click on to transfer the tracks to the player?:robottongue:

dogsbreath wrote:
i have just purchased a 6gb zen micro.i have transferred tracks to the pc music libary in the the mediasource organizer.i have looked everywhere but i cannot see a button to click on to transfer the tracks to the player?:robottongue:
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- Go to View->Right Panel View and select to view your MP3 player.
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is there anything else I can do?
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yes the best thing would be make a copy of your post and paste it in the windows forum ... by the way welcome to the Apple Discussions as you are not running a MAC your question would be best served in the special
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sounds like you need to 'add to library' all your songs... check it out in the other forum Erik gets confusing otherwise ... good luck ... TP

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