Ipod lost data?

when I connected my ipod to my mac, all of my music and videos disappeared. in the capacity box, the size of 'other' data had grown to 3.96 GB (the size of my stored music and videos combined!) how do I prevent this from happening again?

Check your HD using Disk Utility and repair your permissions from time to time. And keep a backup of cause, just in case...
Your ipod touch backup is located here: On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
You'll have to copy the whole folder "Backup" to a save place, itunes only keeps one backup and replaces the old every time you back up. For more info see this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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