ITunes deleted ALL my apps and a lot of my music... I'm going to scream
So I hooked up my iPod touch 2nd generation to my computer last week to Sync it and back it up. After the sync, EVERY SINGLE one of my apps was gone. Gone from my iPod, gone from iTunes... GONE GONE. Poof. I was mad.
Mad doesn't begin to describe how I feel now that I plugged it in again today and 90 of my songs were deleted. Again from my iPod AND iTunes. I have no idea which ones they are yet. Everything on this iPod is legal and fully legit. No illegal downloads...etc. Why is this happening, and is there ANY way I can get this stuff back? I am so sick of this. iTunes is supposed to back up my stuff in case I lose it of my iPod so why is it taking it away?
If anyone has any advice, I'd be forever grateful.
Thank you.
Message was edited by: myguykai
go into the itunes store, go to your account, click purchase history. that gives you a list of all the things you have downloaded.
you will be able to re-download all your apps for free.
and for the songs, click "report problem", this will allow you to email apple, tell them that you have lost your songs, they will usually respond fairly quickly saying that they have put the songs back into your account and that they will be available to download the next time you go into itunes.
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