All iTunes Songs elminated from iTunes?

I plugged in my thumb drive and everything went nuts. My Computer didn't recognize my external harddrive which houses my music library as well as iTunes. All my songs have doubled without taking up more space. Now I have to set up my preferences all over again after spending 20 hours to do this just a month ago. Anyone know why plugging in a thumb drive would screw things up?

That shouldnt be an issue, it sounds like a driver confusion since every thumb drive i have used gets recognized properly

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I've run into a similar issue lately as well. I narrowed it down to one song that was causing 30 songs not to sync. I removed the song from the sync list (unchecked it) and all 29 songs were able to sync.
You may be running into a similar issue. This may be a problem with this version of iTunes, an issue with one song or a group of songs; hard to know for sure. It's important to narrow down and isolate the cause. Most imporantly get that music back on there!
The way to narrow down the casue add just a few songs at a time (even 1, just to get that first sync finished). Manually syncing is what you'll need here.
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The link below explains how to drag the songs from the iTunes library on the computer on to your iPhone which will start the sync. Add just one song just to see if you can get 1 of those hundreds of songs on there. If you can, awesome! Keep adding until you find the song or group of songs that are causing this issue.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Please let me know how things are going.
Cheers!

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