Zen Micro and Outlook 2003 Sync

I recently purchased the Zen Micro. While I am extremely happy with the Audio quality the Oultoook syncing doesn't work properly. I have tried many times with a huge amount of frustration to sync Outlook 2003 only to find out that any calendar entry that is a "Series of Meetings" that was entered in the past is just ignored by the Zen Micro. I even tried to update the series by typing in a carriage return into each meeting to update the meeting but to no preval. Is this really the way the Zen Micro is designed to work or is the documentation just lacking?

I just wanted to second everyone's comments for Creative's benefit. I just picked up my Orange Zen Micro yesterday - am loving it - but ran into the same Outlook 2003 issue. When I initially synced just the calendar, it transferred nothing. Then I checked BOTH "contacts" and "calendar" (even though I have no contacts), and it transferred my calendar.
I then discovered that roughly 25% of my meetings transferred over. I also pinned it down to any meetings that are marked to "reoccur" in Outlook fail to transfer to my Zen Micro. That's unfortunate as the vast majority of my appointments reoccur.
I called Creative Tech Support today, and they confirmed that their development team is aware of the problem and should *hopefully* have a fix out. We shall see.....
~Josh

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dave_sg,
In addition, you could also update this patch from microsoft for your Windows Media Player 0 to enhance better DRM support.
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Zen Micro and Napster to Go probl

I have the Zen Micro and use Napster to Go. I updated the firmware on my player yesterday since synchronizing my player has become very difficult. I have tried using both the Napster to Go and Windows Media Player 0 to do this. With Napster to Go I get a message that the player has stopped responding, usually within 0 minutes, and with WMP it never completes. After 2 hours, the synchronized is only at 8%. Also, I have many songs that show a license error, even though there appears to be no problem playing the songs and downloading on Napster to Go. It is becoming very frustrating. The computer seems to have no problem recognizing the player.
Also, if the battery is nearly dead and I hook the player to the computer, I can't try to sync at all until the battery is charged. Is this normal. I have used other players where if you plug them to the computer they are powered through the computer and charge while they are used.
Any help would be appreciated.

If you have any music on the player that's not on your hard dri've, move it back to the hard dri've now. (Since you just upgraded, that shouldn't be an issue; but since you're gonna reformat your dri've again, I'm just being 00% sure.) Then install the Windows hotfixes listed in the FAQs. Then go into recovery mode (remove battery, then hold power switch in On position while re-inserting battery until menu comes up); from there, choose Format.
If that doesn't fix your problem, go back to recovery mode, choose Reload Firmware, then re-run the firmware upgrade.

ZEn Micro and Vista Help Plea

Ok I have searched but anyways so I have a ZEN Micro and I just bought a new laptop that happens to have Vista on it. I know I need to update the firmware on my player to get Vista to recognize it, the thing is that I recently moved across the country and my XP machine is at one end of the US and me and my Vista are at another end so is there anyway for me to do this without needing an XP machine please say yes because I really dont want to buy a new players just because I can load a driver *frustration* any solution?

No, you can't must be Xp & WMP0 only to update firmware. What firmware version is on the player now? You might be able to use it on a Vista but you will only be able to drag & drop to it. No playlists, no syncing. Ask around somone where you are may have a XP computer. Maybe a computer repair shop?

Zen Micro and Vista? - Sol

I am trying to get my Zen Micro (DAP-MD0004) to work with Vista to no avail. It is loaded with the latest firmware (PlaysForSure - I dont think so!!!) and Vista picks it up and installs the driver no problem.However, if I try to view music through My Computer it doesnt show anything. Windows Media Player doesnt work either because its WMP. The sync windows just keeps saying to connect a device. I have installed Creative MediaSource 5 Organizer with plugin and even though it picks up my Zen, when I try to view my music it doesnt respond and I have to kill it.Has anybody got any advice for me I have already searched the forums for Zen Micro and Vista and I have found nothing to help me. Is Creative looking into the problem of people not being able to put music onto their devices

I have finally got it to work.Here is what I did for anyone that is having the same problem:
Boot the Zen to Recovery Mode (Remove battery, hold switch in on position, and insert battery)
Run a Clean Up
Run a Format
Reboot
Install Creative MediaSource 5 Organizer with PlaysForSure Plugin
Connect Zen Micro to computer and run MediaSource
You should now be able to copy music from your computer to your Zen.
I am disappointed that I couldn't copy my music off the device first but hey-ho.
I am also disappointed that the latest version of MediaSource requires you to purchase a pack to convert music to MP3.
It never fails to amaze me what businesses will do to try and get more money from us consumers.

Problem for synchronizing calendars between my iPOD 30GB and OUTLOOK 2003

Hello,
I arrive to synchronize my contacts between my iPOD and OUTLOOK 2003 via iTunes, but not the calendars.
Thank you for your help

If you have EVER sync'd Outlook 2003 with a PDA then iTunes will throw an error when trying to sync Calendars.
THE FIX:
Delete all calendar entries
(an easy way to do this is in Calendar select VIEW > Arrange By > Current View > Events)
Then Delete all entries by highlighting them all right click and select delete!
NOTE: You may have to repeat VIEW > ARRANGE By > Current View > {other categories in list i.e. "Category" and/or "Annual Events" and/or "Recurring Appointments"} To find all the entries that need to be deleted.
Once all of the calendar data is deleted you can re-input the data, but you can never sync it with a PDA otherwise you will develop the original problem again.
WHY DOES THIS WORK? Simply when a PDA syncs with Outlook it places a unique hidden identifer on each entry which screws up iTunes ability to sync with your calendars.
Hope this is clear and helps someone.

Zen Micro & Treo 600 USB sync collis

So I had a working Handspring Treo USB sync process for a while, and later when I installed the drivers for the Zen Micro and then Creative MediaSource Organizer, I found that I had somehow broken both. Same situation with Zen Micro Media Explorer, and uninstalling/reinstalling does not seem to remedy the problem. I was surprised to not see this issue here - am I just overlooking something obvious?

I sync my Treo600 on the same pc as my Zen Micro. - and I haven't had any problems....
I didn't have an acti've Treo sync going when I first installed the Zen Micro software... But It has never been an issue.
Maybe ask over on the brighthand.com treo600 forums...

Acrobat Reader XI and Outlook 2003

After upgrading the Acrobat Reader on our Citrix-Servers with Windows 2003 and Outlook 2003, it is not possible to send pdf from Acrobat Reader via E-Mail. When we select the function to send the document per mail (with the default mail programm), the focus switches to Outlook (when started), but no mail with the pdf-file as attachment is opened.
On a system with Outlook 2007, there are no problems.
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Locate link browser window in Windows 7 and Outlook 2003

Every time I click on a link in an email in Outlook, a "locate link browser" window appears. There's a lot of help on the web to fix it for Win XP, but those steps don't appear to work for Windows 7.
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http://www.slipstick.com/problems/firefox.htm
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Browser issue and I suspect it occurred when one of our daughters switched association of the default browser to Chrome. About a week ago, I switched it back to IE. But the problem has continued.
1) The .htm and .html associations on her computer are set to IE
2) The default browser is back to IE
3) The link in the preview pane of the email message does not work (it brings up Link Browser)
but if you "forward" the message into a message window and then use CTRL+left-click on the same hyperlink, the link works.
There must be secondary association coding that pertains only to the preview pane of Outlook 2003 which gets disrupted by the switch to another default browser... and which does not get reset when you revert to IE.
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Difference between zen micro and zen micro S

yeah... the title pretty much explains itself... I want to buy a zen micro and i went to the page which i was gonna buy it from (amazon) and it had gone, it said this product no longer runs instead buy the Zen Micro SE, WHAT IS IT?!!
xxx

Averry,
If you ordered the orange one today from our online store it would come with:
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and as part of the promotion currently running it would include an extra Battery.
If you wanted an AC adapter with it, you could order one along with the player and it should arri've in the same shipment. They are sold separately under accessories.
Jeremy

Zen micro and getting Zen Media Player to recognize

I went back to firmware .0.03 and reinstalled the Zen software after getting no where with firmware that works with MS media player.
I noticed two things.
the device installs differnently in the hardware profile between the two firmware versions
2 If I start the Zen media player and then connect my Zen Micro things work ok. If I connect my Zen Micro and then activate Zen media player things are hit and miss on detecting the Micro.
This just me or have others seen the same thing?Message Edited by summersr on 03-08-2005 03:38 AMMessage Edited by summersr on 03-08-2005 03:39 AM

Just a thought
Might try re-installing the software from the Zen disk (select repair option).
I noticed that it takes an extremely long time to install all of the parts and pieces and if you exit before it finishes you do not have all of the things the Zen needs to function.

Zen Micro and Li

I was thinking of going all out and only using Linux, since I am pretty Anti-Microsoft. But before I did that I wanted to know if I would still be able to put songs on my Zen Micro and charge it through the PC if I was using Linux. I am not sure which distro I am going to use yet. But I was thinking of switching soon. I just need to check into a few possible problems, and this is one of them.

There are 2 programs available:
XNJB: <a href='http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/index.html' target=_blank>http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/index.html[/url]
Gnomad2: <a href='http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/' target=_blank>http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/[/url]
Got a problem? Post it on the <a href='http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=4' target=_blank>Nomadness Linux Forum[/url]
btw all this came from the FAQ at the top of the boards

Zen micro and fm transmit

hey, I am looking at purchasing a zen micro and was wondering what people thought of it. also, can you get an fm radio transmitter(like on the ipod) for your car/home? Thanks

There are various old threads seeking opinions on the player, so I would take a look back. Generally it's well regarded, but asking this opinion on what is essentially a support board is likely to get you a lot of replies from people having problems. If you get one make sure you update to the latest firmware as there was a battery charging issue in the earlier firmware.
You can get a radio transmitter, but it will have to be a 3rd party one e.g. Belkin.

Zen Micro and Napster to

I just bought the Zen Micro and have updated my firmware as Napster to Go wants me too, but it seems like I have to update my firmware almost everytime I log on to Napster and try and download songs. Does nayone know fi this is an issue with Napster or with Creative. It sucks to have to update it everytime because then it wipes out everything on my Zen Micro and I have to download the playlists again. I'm new to all this too, so maybe it's something I'm doing wrong or missing? Help!
Also, is there another music download site that might work better with the Zen Micro?
I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

I'm not a serious tech head, but I know enough to use the stuff that I buy. Basically, mine doesn't recognize my player 00% of the time either, I usually just disconnect my player and restart... I guess the software and stuff is an inexact science. I figure that as long as you can transfer songs to the player then your cool, and it will usually allow you to do that.

Zen Micro and XP S

Using 2..02 on my zen micro and windows does not see my player through the usb port. Is it true that I need to upgrade XP to service Pack 2? I'd like to avoid this if possible. Does anybody else use this firmware with SP ?Thanks!

fdreinthea wrote:
SP2 conflicts with a lot of programs. Norton Ghost, several differenct firewall packages and even different peripherals will cease operation with the update.
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