Entire Music Library Deleted

iPod Touch 4th Gen. For the past few years I've been using iTunes on my work computer to play music from my iPod Touch via Apple USB connector. I add and remove all music on my iPod only from my home computer. Over the past few days, iTunes on my work computer has been deleting my entire music library, over 4000 songs (with the exception of songs purchased from iTunes). I've already restored and added these songs once from my home computer but this morning, the same thing happened. I did select the option in iTunes to not automatically sync any devices and also have selected Manually Manage Music and Videos. Not sure why all of the sudden I'm losing all stored music when plugging into another computer. Any ideas?? Frustrated...

Thanks. Was this something that was changed with a newer iTunes release? Just strange that I've been doing this for a few years now all of the sudden I'm losing all music Too bad because it is easy to sort and search through iPod using iTunes.

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Go to File>Reveal in Explorer (something like that)
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Drag that folder into iTunes and wait a while.
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