Everything has disappeared from my iTunes...

The problem listed above, is one of many
Been having, what looks to be, a common problem with my iPhone 4 - I suddenly keep getting a warning message telling me that I'm running out of storage on the phone and I should go to settings to change my storage options and whatnot. After the first time I got this message, I deleted all my text messages and photos, but CONTINUED to get this warning message about every ten minutes. I connected my phone to my PC to check the amount of free space, and sure enough I had bags of it, about 30-40% free space
After I had deleted all of my text messages, my phone would then not let me open my text message centre at all. I could not recieve any of the texts being sent to me, and I could not write any. I would get a notification and a glimps of the first line of a text, and then couldn't open my texts to actually read the messages.
After this, other things started playing up. All of my apps started crashing, most of the them wouldn't load at all. (Yes I was clearing all my background apps etc. I'm not an Apple n00b ) Then, in between apps crashing, the icons for random apps would go dark for a few minutes and would have "cleaning..." written underneath them instead of the app name. It did it this with all of them, and was doing it with at least one constantly, in no particular order. Even apps that I hadn't used for days, or that had been updated recently.
I had a bit of a tantrum last night, as I tried to call someone (as I couldn't send them a text, as I normally would have done in this instance) and ended up getting their answer machine - I COULDN'T HANG UP. I had to switch my phone off to end the call. I could open my calculator and my photos, but not my phone keypad or contacts?! My little brother now has a minute and a half of me swearing progressively louder and heartier at my iPhone to listen to whenever he checks his messages.
This was when I decided to restore my iPhone. I double checked when my last manual backup was to make sure all my Apps etc would be ok, it had been backed up a few days prior to the first sign of the problem - all systems go!
I restored my iPhone, everything looked good, I restored backup - it seemed to be working, it even remembered my wifi password! I checked my photos, back in my camera roll (even though I had deleted them the day before to try and free up some space, but whatever, that was a good sign) I checked my mail centre, all my email accounts were there with all my mail in them, I tried to open my text messages - HUZZAH IT WORKED! All my texts were there, except for the ones that people had been trying to send me while my phone was broken. Oh well.
Now... where are the rest of my apps?
I scolled through my 3 iPhone 'pages,' everything had gone Facebook, Instagram, the whole shebang. I took another look at iTunes on my pc while it was still connected - went to Apps... nothing there.
Oh crap, never mind, I'll just go to the app store and install them all again, most of them were free apps anyway...
But what about my music? Now my iTunes library (on my PC) only contains music, TV shows and films that I have bought directly from iTunes. It doesn't have any of the music from ripped CDs, or that were already on my PC prior to me getting an iTunes account.
That's no big deal, I can add them all manually - time consuming, but at least I can clear out old albums I don't want anymore.
But now my main concern is that everything that IS in my library, is stored in the iCloud, and not actually on my iTunes on my PC. So I can't play any of my music. There is a column I've never noticed before with the iCloud symbol, if I hover over the symbol after each track it tells me to 'download from the iCloud' BUT WHEN I CLICK IT NOTHING HAPPENS!!!
This is basically the final straw, I'm on the verge of smashing up some very expensive items and screaming myself hoarse. Please help?
I'm going to make an appointment with the Apple Store to go and get my little 'storage' problem looked at, as that's still going on (EVEN THOUGH MY IPHONE IS LITERALLY EMPTY BECAUSE I HAVE NO MUSIC IN MY ITUNES LIBRARY TO PUT ON THE **** THING.)
Bah!!
If you have experienced anything similar, I;d love to hear about it.
Sofi x

Hi miller2x,
One possible cause of an empty library is this:
iTunes creates an empty library file in Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2715
Here's some information on finding the missing media:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408
Lastly, this article has information on recreating your library and playlists:
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Take care,
- Ari

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