Turn off auto sync on 2.2 firmware?

 

 Bigdaddyhorse wrote:

 BWGATH wrote:

 nhlny27 wrote:

 Pinchild wrote:

Ugh, thanks for trying Andy.  I think for now I'm just going to go back to 1.4 because I like to have full control over the device and it just doesn't work with my style of organization.

Is there a way to go back to 1.4?  I just got a Zune for the first time a few days ago, and the software has been BEYOND frustrating.  From what I'm reading, the old software was a lot better.  I would love to just use that.

 

I've tried doing just what you are suggesting. The old software will not work with the new marketplace. It's OK if you never want to buy music.

 

I was begging a guy on the phone the other day to let me go back. "I'm sorry but we cannot and do not offer downgrades on our software". I said that I don't consider it a downgrade at all, since the old software was great and worked perfectly everytime, and the new software hasn't done anything right after multiple tries. "I'm sorry you feel that way, but it is better" was the reply I got. Lucky it was phone, that is deserving of a slap. I could care less about the marketplace, never used it and probably never will.

SORRY, I SCREWED UP ON THE LAST POST BUT I AGREE.

A LOT OF THE PEOPLE I HAVE SPOKEN WITH ON ZUNE CUSTOMER SERVICE DOESN'T SEEM TO KNOW HALF THE THINGS THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. I'VE HAD TO CALL ZCS ABOUT 9 TIMES WITH PROBLEMS. EACH TIME, SOMEONE HAS TOLD ME TO DO SOMETHING TO "SOLVE THE PROBLEM" WHEN IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROBLEM. I KNOW A LOT ABOUT COMPUTERS AND OBVIOUSLY THEY DON'T [ AND THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ZUNE EITHER ! ] I TOO HAVE WANTED TO SLAP OR CHOKE THE CRAP OUT OF THOSE PEOPLE FOR GIVING ME USELESS INFORMATION, OR WASTING MY TIME DOING THINGS THAT DID NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO BEING CLOSE TO HELPING TO GET NEAR THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS I HAVE HAD. THEY NEED TO HIRE SOME PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

AND ITS TOTALLY UNFAIR. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO "DOWNGRADE" BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY ISSUES WITH THE "UPGRADE". HIGHLY REDICULOUS. I HAVE HAD MY ZUNE FOR A YEAR NOW AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM TILL NOW...

 BWGATH wrote:

Then to that I would say format the Zune and use the install CD that came with your Zune which has the old software and reinstall it to your computer. If you don't use the marketplace you should be OK.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT. IT AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLS THE UPDATES.

I HAVE TRIED IT MANY TIMES.

 UhOhh LeLe wrote:

 BWGATH wrote:

Then to that I would say format the Zune and use the install CD that came with your Zune which has the old software and reinstall it to your computer. If you don't use the marketplace you should be OK.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT. IT AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLS THE UPDATES.

I HAVE TRIED IT MANY TIMES.

 

It figures, sorry my mistake then.

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I hate beating a dead horse but this one needs to be beaten to an unrecognizable pulp!!!!!  This is a HUGE PITA!!!!!!!!!!  I want to sync what I want and delete what i want when I want and WHERE I want, whether it is on the Zune or the PC or both!  I am like a lot of people on here,  I don't have the space on my PC to keep a Smithsonian's amount of information just so that I can have it on my Zune.  I usually get rid of it on my PC once it is on the Zune.  If I wanna listen to something when I am on the PC I plug in the Zune and use it as my player, fancy that!!!!!

So....MS.......we know you are listening (because you like to be 'Big Brother') fix this problem.  It seems to me that the masses are speaking and have a bigger voice then your so called 'target audience'.

This is incredibly asinine.   I bought a Zune to replace my 40GB player because of the bigger storage space.   I do NOT have 80 GB of hard drive space to mirror my Zune content, nor should I have to.   I do NOT listen to music on my computer, I listen to it in my car and elsewhere.   

With people having digital cameras, digital camcorders, video capture devices, etc. on their computers, it's typical MS shortsightedness to think that people are going to want to devote a large chunk of their hard drive to mirroring the same content as their zune.   This fix should be done and done quickly.   I shouldn't have to spend another 100 dollars so I can use my zune to its fullest cacpacity. 

 dragcrunks wrote:

I have successfully unintentionally deleted two movies that took me roughly three and a half hours total to encode.  I added them to my Zune 30, and played them to check everything out and to see if audio was in sync.... all was well.  I then proceeded to delete the files to preserve memory on my laptop, as the movies took up roughly 700mb each.  I then went to sync some podcasts, and lo and behold, my movies were deleted from my Zune.  It is really a disservice to the loyal Zune userbase when the software deems itself worthy of deleting items off your Zune when you have specided TO LET ME SYNC MY OWN FILES.  Now, I love my Zune, but this is one giant frustration that needs to be resolved.

I am having the exact same problem.

I bought my Zune almost a year ago, gave it to my brother in July and am just now getting it back only to discover everything I loved about it has gone to ***.

I came on this forum looking for some sort of resolution and here I find the problem stems back at least two months and still no one has done anything to remedy it? What the hell is that?

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I hate ipods, macs, and apple in general. I thought zune was the greatest and thaught that until 5 days ago when i went to clean up my computer and relized i had deleted $50 worth of music. I might have to rethink my alliance, this is communism. Its a "portable" player.

Have you tried redownloading your purchased content?  This can be done at least a few times per track, from Marketplace->Downloads->Purchased.

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I've turned off my auto-sync and switched the options to 'let me choose' and the software still syincs. Dose anyone have that problem too?

Same problem here too I wish  the would have  told people about this because I never would have got my new zune its more trouble then tis worth.

 rogeliozim456 wrote:

I've turned off my auto-sync and switched the options to 'let me choose' and the software still syincs. Dose anyone have that problem too?

You can, after your library is completely in your "Collection", simply stop monitoring the folders (from the Settings menu, click "Remove" on all of the monitored folders).

To address possible concerns:
- You won't have the album art (or video preview) shown to you through the Zune software. It will appear like a gray box, HOWEVER, it will still be there on your Zune.
- To add anything in the future simply open the folder that the file you want to add is in (such as C:\..\Music) through Windows Explorer, open the Zune software (to the appropriate Collection window - music for music, videos for videos, etc.), and drag-and-drop the file you mean to add into your collection. From there, simply right click on the file now in your collection and click Sync to (Your device name).
- To delete files off of your computer and keep it on your Zune, simply go back to the Windows Explorer folder and delete it from there - NOT FROM YOUR COLLECTION - and the Zune software will be none-the-wiser as it won't be "watching" the folder. The only difference is, again, when it tries to retrieve the file data (and album art, preview, whatever) it won't be able to (because the file doesn't exist anymore) and you'll just see a gray box... but it'll be safely and securely on your Zune, rest assured.
- To delete files off of your Zune, simply delete them from your "Collection."

If you're saying something like, "wouldnt monitoring the folder with the new files (and not the old) in it remove the old files? That is to say, you'll have to monitor something in the future if you ever want to add again, right? Doesn't this make syncing a one shot deal?"

My remedy makes it so that you're not monitoring any folders. Again, you're just going to add files into your Collection via drag-and-drop and not by the "Monitor this folder" option in the future. Oh, and you can sync a billion times if you want, nothing will get deleted if you follow my instructions.

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