ITunes doesn't accept my iPod touch anymore. Help?

I am not sure if this is an iTunes problem, an iPod touch problem, or a combination of the two. Everytime I plug in my iPod touch, I have to restore it to factory settings, and then repurchase anything I bought on the iPod before I plugged it in. This is the third time in a row that this problem has happened, and I am getting frustrated. Help?

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I already shut down my firewall for every apple software product i had on my pc. And i updated itunes already.

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This happened to me once... I was told to hold the menu button and the center button until the apple appeared in the screen... after I did it my iPod would show up as a divice on iTunes.... I don't know if that helps.
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HELP! iTunes doesn't recognize my iPod touch

okay well i've had my ipod touch for a few months now and i've never had a problem with iTunes not recognizing it or anything until now. The last time i put new songs on my ipod was december 23/08 and it worked perfectly, but now i go and plug my ipod into the computer and iphoto opens up and recognizes it just like usual; so no problem there. but then itunes on the other hand has that little loading circle that says that its loading but it's been like that for half and hour and hasnt done anything. I right clicked on the icon and it says "Application not responding" in light grey letters. I know that the USB ports arent faulty or anything because on my ipod it says that its charging. To fix it ive tried reseting my ipod, reseting the computer, updating itunes, downloading itunes and installing it all over again, plugging it into another USB port and still nothing at all happens. It has been like this for the past week and is getting very frustrating.
Im not sure what else to do. do you think it's my ipod? or itunes? If anyone knows why this is happening please tell me! any help is deeply appreciated!
(I put this question in the itunes section and ipod touch because i wasnt sure which one it belonged in)
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Does this problem occur when you open iTunes without having your iPod connected? You migh want to try the uing the disk utility to repair disk permissions. It's in Applications - Utilities - Disk Utility. Click on the drive that iTunes is on and click repair permissions.

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HELP!! itunes doesn't recognize my ipod touch and i've tried everything!!!

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Ok people after messing up three days with my jailbroken ipod touch cauze my itunes didn't recognize it i figured out that the problem is first windows recognized it as a imaging device o as a camera, i found in the device manager was listed mi apple ipod under portable devices and there was the problem it has to be listed under universal serial bus controllers named as a apple ipod so this is what i did but first make sure u have correctly installed itunes and the apple mobile device support:
1 open the device manager or windows button + r is run and then type devmgmt.msc
2 look for the portable devices and find the apple ipod or wherever that is listed on your pc.
3 once u find the apple ipod do a right click on it and click on uptade driver software
4 take the manualy opcion or browse on my computer and then look for this folder on your computer C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers
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It is as if there was nothing in the USB, but I believe there is no problem with the cable and not with the hardware of the iPod, because I load the iPod with the battery taken from the iPhone.
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My computer recognizes all the devices, except for one of the Ipod Touchs. I am not sure what to do. When I connect it to my PC it makes a sound, but not the same sound the other devices make when they are recognized.
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- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
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Itunes (Mac) won't recognize ipod touch - please help!!

Hi. I have a brand new 4th-gen ipod Touch. I'm running Snow Leopard and iTunes 10.4.1 on a Macbook. I have three other ipods (classic, shuffle x 2) and they all work fine. THe USB cable and port work fine with other ipods (and with this one on the rare occasions it works properly) and the ipod touch, when it's cooperating, seems to function OK so I don't think it's a hardware failure. It hasn't been dropped/wet, and I've only used it for 4 days.
Bit of a saga and I'm getting seriously fed up!
The ipod touch synced OK the first time I went to set it up, I installed some music/apps and all seemed fine. Then the next time itunes wouldn't recognize it so I couldn't sync (it just charges through the USB but does nothing else). So I ran through all the suggested tests on Apple support (turning on/off, checking I had the right versions of stuff, etc), that didn't help so I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes 10. That worked, and the ipod touch synced and I was able to use it again. BUT, the day after that, it went back to not being recognized. Tried everything again, reinstalled itunes - that worked. Then the next day... not recognized again!
So I phoned Apple support, and the guy told me to hard reset and restore factory settings, which I did but it failed: first time it didn't restore (was just same as before). Second time I tried it froze and I got Error #1611. Tried again and got Error #1618 which isn't even listed on the Apple Support page the error message links to (by this stage it was showing the plug into itunes screen you get when you first turn it on, but only when plugged into a USB port - wouldn't turn on when not connected). So I called Apple Support again (different person this time) and was told it was a possible hardware failure and I should take it to my local Apple Reseller.
Apple Reseller staff looked at it, confirmed that it'd only turn on when connected to computer, so they plugged it into one of theirs and restored the factory settings. THis time successful (ipod working again) but went to sync to itunes and AGAIN it wouldn't recognized it. Went through the whole uninstall/reinstall process for itunes and got the ipod to sync. But now.... not recognized again!! I can't keep uninstalling and reinstalling itunes every time I want to sync the ipod, that's just ridiculous.
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I think I might have fixed it (touch wood, cross fingers, etc)...
Here's what I did:
In Finder, under "Go", select "Go to folder".
When the box comes up, enter this folder name: /system/library/launchdaemons
Click "go"
Locate this file: com.apple.usbmuxd.plist~orig
Put it in the trash
(NB: there's also a file called "com.apple.usbmuxd.plist" in that folder - don't touch that one)
Restart computer
Open itunes, connect ipod
If the ipod appears in itunes, restart and try again to confirm it's working.
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my music is not on my ipod touch anymore but one of my other software called copytrans has my music backup so i got all of my music and videos back but they will not play in copytrans itunes or just my ipod touch itself please please help there???????????
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