Itunes help PLEASE!!

[PeepsRule18]

So a day ago i had my ipod connected to my computer and everything is fine. Now today i plug it into my computer and it tells me that my ipod is used on a different library (which its not) and that i have three choices. 1. to Cancel 2. to delete everything from my Ipod and sync everything from the library (my library was wiped out) 3. Transfer purchased items then sync. I picked option 3 cuz i have a lot of money invested in music from itunes and I don't wanna lose that. I do though have like a ton of cds tranfered on there and it would take forever to put everything on again. is there a way to find all of my music?? please help me!

[whiffey]

I use iTunes, not expertly, but anyway here's a few thoughts.

Ultimately all your music is held in Windows folders which you can browse out in Explorer if you like. Have a look in My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music.

So your music is still there. What I did very early on was to opt to manually manage everything - the library and the ipod. I can't remember exactly how it's done, but if you go to iTunes Help and search on "manually manage" it will come up with a few entries, one of which is how to manually import into your library and ipod. If you do this, then you have total control over the contents of your library and ipod and don't have them synchronised every time you make changes. This way you can keep independent libraries on different computers, e.g. at home and at work.

Furthermore, you can delete stuff from your iTunes library but opt to keep the files (in Windows) which then you can manually reimport if you decide you want them again.

I hope this helps, but I know I haven't explained it terribly well.

[shinydisco7]

hi peeps rule18!
if you get this in time, the same thing happened to me. I just clicked on my ipod and pressed sync. what did you do with your ipod on the computer that day?