I have a problem that my Black Zune thinks that if I delete a CD I've ripped to the portable (in order to transfer it to the Zune) from the portable, I also want it to disappear from the Zune.

Not so.  I want them to stay on the Zune and I don't want them taking up space I can ill afford on the portable (where other things are beginning so suffer because of the lack of space).

Now the interesting thing is that I also have a Red Zune and when I connect that to the portable, that can be connected as a guest and then none of this made to and from deletes happens.

So I've been looking for the setting that converts my Black Zune to a guest too and of course it's not there.

I've also been looking at other ways of cutting the connection but it seems from the wording that if I cut the connection between a CD on the portable and the copy of the CD on the Zune, the copy on the Zune is deleted (at least that's what the software seems to be warning me will happen).

So for the moment all I have is the following "solution".

Fill up the Zune as far as possible (until the portable runs out of space) with CDs from the portable. Then remove the Zune; delete all the files on the portable and - most impoortant - *never* attach the Zune to the portable again (because the first thing that would happen is that it would delete all my music on the Zune). Add any later CDs I acquire to the Black Zune only via the desktop where it is (will be) hopefully a guest and synchronization won't take place but I'll still be able to add stuff.

Meanwhile the situation with the Red Zune is probably the opposite!

Thank goodness they were out of Black ones when I ordered the Red one. The black one came later as a present and I'd have to start labelling them to know which Zune to attach to with PC.

Now if anyone has a real solution to this problem - please write a comment. I'm holding off on deleting all those files on the portable for a couple of days just in case. (So I have the possibility to test any solution with the Black Zune without the files on it disappearing ...

 

P.S. Well that was clever of me. Leaving the question mark off the subject so everyone would think I was presenting a solution. As it is I'm still in the same semi mess. So what I'm going to do is move the Zune folder to a USB drive and then if I really really do need to connect the Black Zune to the portable (or I forget the problem!) I can at least get the files back quickly and won't need to rip them from my CDs again.