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I've searched endlessly for a previous discussion/solution. I've always had my ipod programmed manually (on Windows and Mac's) as I've never had my own computer (I'm poor and I travel a lot). I haven't figured out how to back it up to my external hard drive. I had been using it with my friends Mac. At some point the songs stopped playing unless it was through iTunes. The content appeared on the iPod screen but nothing would play. Then, catastrophe! Not sure what my friend did (improper ejection?) but all the music content was wiped out entirely. Says "no music" and says "111 GB Free." Also wiped out videos but photos remain. Is the content still hiding somewhere?? Anyway to recover it? Obviously for the future I intend to do do it proper and get a laptop to auto sync and back up and all that good stuff. But I appreciate the help for recovery!!

No advice? Must be bad news.

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