Awesome! You were correct again.. I had not moved any of the stuff back out of unattached items after I used emplode to erase some songs. (I felt safer doing one step and hopeing the sync would fly, then I was going to correct the playlists)

I am still curious however, should I have deleted the database Fids that matched the three mp3 files that I deleted? Or will the player correct these orphans? Is there any way I can determine which files I deleted by any method? I wrote down their names.... "FD0, FE0 & FF0"=mp3's their matching files were "FD1, FE1 & FF1"=playlist hooks?

After the good syncs and all the playlists were fixed I deleted (using emplode) an entire album I did not like so I should have enough room to add back the three unknown mp3 files I
waxed.
What will the player do if it encounters a database entry for an mp3 file that does not actually exist on the disk?

Glad I could help you find these nastys and prevent others from getting these in the gold bits... (I love QA testing as it is what I manage for a living at Veritas.)

Thanks again sir!!!
Empeg support is Awesome.

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