Itunes moved songs to trash

i was having problems with my ipod , lost music that wont appear. the ipod dosent even show on the desktop . so i was trying a data recovery program and was running itune at the same time . the data recovery wasnt working so i quit , and then my itune started having problems so i forced quit and when i reopened itune no song , ive later found out theyve moved to the trash but i cant move them back out of the trash and also somehow the desktop is now in the trash as well which i cant move either . i think my ipod has given my laptop a virus which would explain the ipod and now ive infected the computer

Michael,
Can you explain what happened better? What you are saying does not exactly make sense.
1) Your iPod does not show up on the desktop when connected if you have a PC. Only if you are running Mac OS X...
2) Your iPod did not give your PC a virus. Your iPod's data is on your computer, so your computer would have had to have one, and either way, I doubt your iPod was involved.
3) You said that your desktop was in the trash. Your desktop cannot be in the trash...
Are you on a mac or pc? Some things you say seem like Mac OS X, others Windows XP. Mac OS X is not as succeptable to viruses, so I doubt that is what happened.
Finally, how did you loose the music? If the iPod was not appearing, that's one thing. But if the music was still on the iPod, it wouldn't be lost. Where was the music prior to starting data recovery?
btabz

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