IPod spontaneously dumped everything on my iPod except my games and won't sync anything when I plug it in. What do?

Basically, what happened above is what happened. My iPod wasn't connected to anything, and it spontaneously dumped everything except the games: videos, songs, etc.
When I tried to sync it to my computer, it wouldn't hook up, and I'm not entirely sure why. It has an error code, I believe, but I can't remember what it is. I brought it in to a Mac store to see if they could get it fixed up for me, but they had no idea what the error code meant. I'll try to look it up as soon as I can.
Not sure if it matters, but it's the 120G silver iPod classic. Assistance would be awesome

See this thread: iTunes 12.1 Not Finding iPhone

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