When I bought my Zune 120 a year ago, I came up with the idea to make a playlist where I would put all of the music I wanted on my Zune in. That saved me a lot of time when switching to my Zune HD as my daily player. So when I got my Zune HD I just dragged that playlist (I called it Korneel, a very original choice) onto my ZHD through the Zune Software. I have about 22 Gigabytes of music, so syncing does take some time.
I went to bed and the next morning all my music was synced. So far so good.
But today, four days later, I experienced that choosing the sync option “Items I choose” was a very bad move. The “Items I choose” option comes down to this: everything that’s in your Zune Software collection will be synced to your Zune. If something disappears from your hard drive and the Zune software notices, it will be removed from your Zune. So because I have such a big music collection, I store all those files on an external hard drive.
Also my playlists were stored on that drive.
So what happened today? For some reason my external hard drive lost the connection with my PC. I was recharging my Zune and the ‘Software was running. The ‘Software noticed my Korneel-playlist was gone so it deleted all my music, except for two albums from my Zune. Only ‘Flaming Pie’ by Paul McCartney and ‘Songs’ by Admiral Freebee are left.
So if you want to spare yourself some pain, go to settings > device > sync option and make sure you have selected the right sync option. I find ‘Manual sync’ the best option, but that’s up to you…
hi.
in connection with the items i choose option, have you tried to check and set your sync groups.
Hi,
It’s just that I’ve all my music files stored on an external hard drive, so whenever I disconnect it, the Zune Software sees that those files are gone and thinks it should delete all dissappeared music from my Zune.