Ipod wont put purchased music on itunes

it used to be that when i would connect my ipod to the computer it would give me an error message that said could not syncronise ipod, session could not be started and then apple came in with a message saying that i have valuable information on my ipod and if they could use it and of course i said yes send to apple, so now when i connect my ipod to the computer everything works fine but those songs still wont go onto the computer so what is going on? i dont get any error message anymore it just wont go onto my purchased playlist.

Plug your iPod in and (if it doesn't already) open iTunes. In iTunes, go to File < Transfer purchases from iPod. That should transfer music you purchased using the touch into iTunes. Since that is normally what happens, I think your error message stopped the process.

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Ok big problem. I have all my music saved onto a 120Gig Western digital Portable Hard drive. i have an 80gig ipod. ive had it for about 5-6 months. i am now having a problem where it wont sync. what happends is that all of my music is in the itunes library. when i try to sync my ipod, none of the music syncs and all of the locations of the original file become lost. when i go into my hard drive and look, all of the files are missing. but when i either unplug the hard drive or restart my comp all of my music is there again. if i try again it does the same thing over and over. any suggestions? t would be appreciated. thanks.

In answer to your last question, no - your iPod is not a goner, but you need to work out what has happened first so that it doesn't happen again. I'm guessing that if you look at "Other" on your iPod you may find it's quite large.
Look on your iPod, go to the Settings menu and choose the About option; on that first display the graphic should show lots of blue (audio), some darker blue (video), some yellow/orange (photos if you have any) and a small amount of orange/red (other). That's the sequence, don't worry if the colours are slightly off or not there. If the last one - other is larger than the audio then that's where your storage has gone!
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If I understand you correctly, only some of the songs (in iTunes) have an exclamation mark against them, while some do not, is that correct? If so, it means that iTunes cannot find the location of ones with exclamation marks. So look at some of the songs that do not have an exclamation mark and try the *Get info/Where* to find out where iTunes thinks they are. Then check to see if the same drive letter is allocated to the hard drive when you connect it. They should be the same letter, are they?
If not, that's been the problem. If they are the same, try "asking" iTunes to see if it can now find the location of one of the missing tracks. (It's possible of course, that some newer added songs were added after the drive letter changed and this will be a problem, but let's hope not!)
So, what's the situation now? If you think the problem is a changed drive letter, make sure that the correct drive letter is now allocated and then ask iTunes to find the missing songs. (Unfortunately, this might be on a song-by-song basis!)
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Connect up the iPod and on the iTunes Summary screen, use the Restore function. This will restore your iPod to its factory settings and remove everything from it, thus freeing up the missing storage space. then a fresh Sync will add everything back onto the iPod again. As you can appreciate, all this will take a bit of time, which is why you need to understand what happened so you don't have to go through this again.
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I recently got a iTunes gift card that I redeemed with my iPhone and purchanced 2 songs. When I sync my phone to my iTunes it gives me a warning message stating:
"Some of the purchased items on the iPhone "Katie's iPhone". including "Addicted". could not be transfered to your iTunes library because you are not authorized for them on this computer.
Would you like to authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes store?" So I hit Authorize and log it with my Apple ID, it says accesing music store and then comes up with another notice saying,
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