Deletes songs purchased on iPod when syncing. Help!

So every time I purchase songs from my iPod and then sync it to my computer, it deletes them from my iPod. Once and only once when I synced my iPod, it transferred the one purchased song I had to my mac. But every other time I have songs purchased on my iPod on wifi somewhere and I sync to my computer it deletes the songs resulting in a GIANT waste of money! Can anyone tell me why it does this? Or how to stop it? Thanks!

If you are using the same iTunes account on both your Mac and your iPod, try using iTunes on your computer and check to see if you can download any purchases from your account on to your computer. Then transfer them onto your iPod like you would transfer any other song.

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lisaquilts wrote:
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