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SAY WHAT!!!

That's no happening to me here...

Could you please tell me what phone (or other MSD device) you were using with iWalkman when this happened to you? Also, did you point the program to the proper location on your phone's MSD where your music/audio files live?

I certainly don't want this happening to anyone and so far no one has reported the problem to me other than you two (and you didn't even bother to formally report it to me on my web site but instead you just bag on it here and I'm not sure why??? How are bugs to get fixed unles I know about them???).

I'm not able to reproduce the problem here on any of my in-house test machines and iWalkman is synchronizing with iTunes just fine for me here. Hmmm....

If this is indeed a problem I'd really like to get it fixed so please do provide me with all of the information/details that you can.

BTW, I'm being told that there is a HUGE bug in the latest R1N firmware of the K750 and W800 phones where your music is mysteriously erased after copying it to the memory stick via the phone's USB fast port connection. Thus, perhaps you guys have run into this R1N bug and it's not iWalkman that erased your files at all. From what I'm being told, the ONLY way around the problem is to either use Disc2Phone to copy your files to the phone directly, or pick up as cheep (i.e. under $15) USB Memory Stick reader/writer (like the one made by ScanDisk) and use that to add music to your phone instead of a direct fast port connection.

Thus, could you also tell me if your K750 or W800 is using R1N0035 or not? If so, then that's probably what the problem is.
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Posted: 2005-10-24 03:36:09
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Oh and BTW... Just to make sure that this isn't a problem with you guys understanding how a "synchronization" works with iWalkman:

If you happened to turn ON the "Synchronize Video Files" option in iWalkman's Preferences dialog box (it's OFF by default), then that forces iWalkman to synchronize the videos on your phone (in the viedo folder you told it to use or in the default video folder for the phone if you didn't specify one) with the videos in your selected iTunes playlists.

Thus, if you had videos on your phone that weren't in your selected iTunes playlists (and you turned this setting ON - again, it's OFF by default), then they would indeed get deleted by iWalkman since it is "synchronizing" the video folder on your phone with the videos you've selected in your iTunes playlists. That's EXACTLY what a synchronization is supposed to do. You just need to make sure that you understand that the synchronization in iWalkman (as with any program of this type) is from iTunes to the phone's MSD ONLY and not the other way around.

As for how your themes whould have been deleted, I have no idea unless you were storing them in your phone's video folder???

I hope this helps explain things some...
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Posted: 2005-10-24 03:49:27
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Here's an Esato post that talks about the R1N firmware bug where your files are deleted (or just disappear) after using the fast port to copy them over to your Memory Stick:

http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=106411

Definitely sounds like that what the problem is to me. I hope that SE fixes this bug soon as I hate the fact that iWalkman is getting blamed for their problem.
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Posted: 2005-10-24 16:35:06
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Any chance of ever making this free?
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Posted: 2005-10-24 16:54:36
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I had videos in my "Video's " Folder and Camera videos folder . All have been deleated . I did not cxhange any settings on the program .

Also most of my photos have been corrupted after sync ..
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Posted: 2005-10-24 18:12:08
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I don´t understand how your photos became corrupt with a app that just deals with videos and music files. The same goes to your themes

I didn´t experience any of those effects, has expected
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Posted: 2005-10-24 18:49:26
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And it has corrupted the rest of my music files . the names dont match the music .. Dont understand what happened ..

But I'm NOT happy
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Posted: 2005-10-24 18:56:05
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My problem has been solved by Mike,
The not sync. issue was a local language problem and as for cleaning out my mem card that was my own fault.

This piece of software is looking great!

- Cye

[ This Message was edited by: cyenid on 2005-10-29 08:58 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-24 21:08:01
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On 2005-10-24 16:54:36, coxy wrote:
Any chance of ever making this free?



No, I'm sorry but iWalkman won't ever be free... It took a whole lot of my time and effort to write the program and it costs me money and time to support it, host it on a web site, etc. Therefore, I have to charge something in order to continue making iWalkman available to the public.

I really don't think that $20 is too much to ask for an app as useful as this one is for your phone, PSP, etc. Heck, I'm sure that you spend more money than that just going out to the movies on the weekend. If you like the app, just skip the movie this weekend and buy it instead.
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Posted: 2005-10-25 02:25:15
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On 2005-10-24 18:12:08, Sharkey wrote:
I had videos in my "Video's " Folder and Camera videos folder . All have been deleated . I did not cxhange any settings on the program .

Also most of my photos have been corrupted after sync ..



Sharkey,

This really sounds like you've been bitten by the Sony Ericsson R1N firmware bug to me as that's EXACTLY what the bug does. i.e. the R1N bug corrupts your memory stick and makes it appear as if all of your files were deleted.

This definitely is NOT a problem with my program. It's a BUG in the firmware of your phone (assuming that you have R1N0035 installed on your phone that is).

I'm sorry that iWalkman caused the bug to appear on your phone, but there's not much I can do about it I'm afraid. Sony Ericsson really needs to step up to the plate on this one and fix the problem with their firmware, USB drivers, etc.

I think that there reason they are slow to react on fixing this one is that the problem doesn't appear if you use their Disc2Phone software to copy music to your phone (and that's what they want you to do). It ONLY happens when you copy files to your phone manually or using a program like iWalkman.

I don't know what else to tell you on this one I'm afraid. All I can say is that if you are using R1N firmware on your K750 or W800, then you should use a high-speed USB 2.0 card reader/writer to sync your music on your phone rather than using the phone's built-in USB Fast Port connector (as doing so MAY cause the R1N bug to appear and your Memory Stick MAY become corrupted).

I hope this helps some...

-- MIKE
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Posted: 2005-10-25 02:35:13
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