Iphone, ipad, apple tv not showing up in iTunes

I have 4 devices, iphone 4s, iphone 4, ipad2, and apple tv 1st gen. all were showing under devices in itunes. now none are. I remember a messege came up the last time they did show in itunes, that said, "could not sync device, unable to fine file". now no devices in itunes. what do I need to do?

I went ahead and tried reinstalling iTunes, but it did not help. I then tried resetting the AppleTV to factory settings. It has shown up in the Devices list again, but it immediately started "syncing" or so it said, but I'm not sure how thats possible since all of my data is stored in an external drive which was disconnected at the time because i had my laptop with my in front of the TV trying to get this all working. I must say, I'm not too impressed with the Apple TV so far. It does not yet seem to have the polish of most Apple products. Hopefully the new firmware will resolve a lot of these issues. I think I may have jumped the gun in canceling my cable service.

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