My iPod is NOT recognized by iTunes
My iPod worked with iTunes perfectly fine 3 days ago. Then, I got 2 iTunes giftcards for christmas. So I plugged in my iPod christmas day to the computer, but it didn't automatically open iTunes like it normally does. So I clicked on iTunes to use them and I noticed the store was lagging, so I thought "No big deal...probably a lot of people using it and it's just running slow..." Well the next day (yesterday) I tried opening iTunes and I got the "Itunes could not be opened because Itunes Library.itl does not exist" error. So I changed the library file to itl (WITHOUT BACKING UP) thinking it would allow me to now open iTunes, and guess what-it did open iTunes, only now all of my media and downloaded content is gone. Completely wiped clean off iTunes. Not even a single song left on it.
And you know what?
My 32 Gig iPod Touch STILL IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY ITUNES!!!!
I have tried unplugging and replugging the iPod multiple times, which does nothing. I have tried reinstalling iTunes MULTIPLE TIMES, which does nothing. I have even gone so far as to system restoring my computer 4 days back to a time when iTunes worked, which by the way-DID NOTHING.
So now I have lost all my media because of iTunes' crap errors, and now my iPod Touch won't even work with it anymore!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? And is there ANY way I can get back the media and downloads I lost on iTunes? I noticed I can't re-download anything from my purchase history...which is REALLY STUPID if you ask me, seeing as I've already payed for it with my own hard earned money, why can't I just re-download from there?
Wow the customer service is even worse. Does Apple want me to go around jailbreaking my iPod now so I can use something that actually recognizes my product?
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