Automatic Update deleted my songs

HELP
I think I deleted stuff I had on my ipod not yet backed up in itunes by doing a automatic update. Is there any way I can recover the files that were on my ipod??

I don't think so your kinda SOL.
Sorry,
- Terry

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I am one of the somewhat fortunate people to have an iPod with more memory than is available on my computer. Unfortunately, this puts me in an awkward position with Automatic Updates from iTunes. Since I can't keep all the songs from my iPod on my PC, I am forced to manually insert any new songs into the iPod. Is iTunes ever going to support "appending" songs to the iPod? Are there any software-requests for this in progress? And if not, where can I submit one? I don't think I'm the only one who could use this functionality.
Intel Centrino Windows XP Pro

erm try the apple feedback page

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I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Last night two updates were automatically installed when I shutdown my computer: KB976098 and KB915597
This morning when I turned on my computer, all my files appear to have been deleted, and although installed software is still there, programs (e.g. iTunes, Google Desktop) have lost all settings and act as though it were a new installed.
- over 200+ photos in My Pictures GONE
- entire iTunes music library GONE
- Desktop shortcuts GONE
- Programs pinned to taskbar GONE (reverted to original default so programs I had removed reappeared)
Oddly enough, everything in my Recycle Bin was preserved. The Windows.old folder was also preserved.
Needless to say, after my painstaking effort to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, this is more than a minor annoyance. Everything is backed up (I think) so I should be able to restore what has been lost but WTF MICROSOFT?! If automatic updates are going to wipe out My Documents, a little warning.
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Ok guys I think I may have figured this out although I'm not so vain as to think it will work for everyone. I'm hoping it does though and I would appreciate you letting me know if it does. Here goes:
Last night 5/25/2011, while surfing and studying I ran across a website about accounting. I'm not sure what happened but something definitely did cos my computer started acting weird and then I got an error. It was a User Account Window asking me to allow
some program and click yes or no. I clicked no like 12 times and it just kept coming back. Since it was a common "Windows" window that I'd seen b4 I finally clicked yes just to get rid of it that's when it happened. 5 seconds later I got an error about my
hard drive and that I needed to restart. It would not go away and then I saw the screenshots on this page. This was the virus only I didn't know it at the time.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fFakeSysdef&threatid=2147639286
Anyway, I closed my lid last night with the error window still open and went to sleep. When I "resumed" this morning all my data was gone. This includes programs, files, pics, music everything. I almost cried. I call this my million dollar laptop: Toshiba
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files from my ex a while ago so I went to the Start Menu----->My User Account---->Organize---->folder and serach options--->View ----in the list below select Show all hidden files and folders and apply it. All my files suddenly appeared. They were
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If you want to manage it manually then connect your iPod and click on the iPod icon in the iTunes source list to bring up the preference tabs in the main pane. In the Summary tab check the box "manually manage music and videos" and click Apply:
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Something to remember about using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device. In that case use the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Windows system tray on the desktop and check this link for alternative methods:: Safely Disconnect IPod

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My old computer crashed permanently. I got a new one and now want to transfer the songs remaining on my Ipod onto the new computer. The problem is that I am afraid when I connect the Ipod, the automatic update will delete all the songs off it (since the new library is currently blank). And I can't turn off automatic update without plugging in the Ipod, since that icon in the bottom right of Itunes won't appear unless it is plugged in.
It's a tricky situation because if I get it wrong once, everything is gone. Any suggestions?

Welcome, Paulli, to the Apple Discussions!
I'll answer your question in just a minute but first I've got to say that I hope you take this as an opportunity to learn a very important lesson: Back up your iTunes library as soon as you can after resolving this situation because right now you are only one glitch of your iPod away from losing your music entirely.
Many people come to the Discussions having lost their music in just such situations and, believe me, it's not a happy time for anyone.
If you place any importance on your playlists and the data they depend on, you will want to include your iTunes Library files in your back-up regimen as well.
Anyways, that's the lecture. The answer to your problem should be found in this post:
MacMuse, "Computer Crashed" #4, 11:49pm Feb 7, 2005 CDT
Good Luck! But once your music is back on your computer, remember:
Your music is valuable - please back it up!

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tt2

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