mp3 player mine

I did it, I did it! *dancing*

After three somewhat grueling hours of tinkering, futzing, Gooooooogling, reading, downloading, installing, re-installing, and uninstalling, interspersed with occasional short bouts of crying, hair-pulling, pacing, and breathing, I did it!!

I got my new MP3 player to work with Ezmerelda!

The drivers don’t work. Vista refused to acknowledge the player at all. Everything I downloaded failed to help, every troubleshooting path I followed led me nowhere. I was even tinkering with the scary permanent depths of my computer!

Finally, I found a link to an article that linked to a page that described what to do (with no links), Goooogled that and found another article that linked to a troubleshooting article that linked to a different page with a firmware update, requiring me to use a computer with XP (Pace’s laptop was, fortunately, at my disposal) to reformat the player, which then successfully got Vista to recognize the player as a viable device.

I’m transferring nearly 6Gs of music as I type! I did it, I did it, I did it!

I am insufferably pleased with myself. A few months ago, I would have given up in tears and returned Blueberry, but today – today she’s mine, loaded up with music.

To celebrate, we’re going to lunch and then to buy blue earbuds to match my brand-new blue MP3 player!

Woot!

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