Laptop troubles and now my entire iTunes library has been deleted.
My laptop is old and I regularly have troubles with it. Tonight it was being particularly stubborn, crashing, not starting up. Mostly caused by a virus I had resolved about 4 years ago and a worn out battery and charger. Well I was just downloading music I was then going to add to iTunes and after several hours of arguing with my laptop I'd finally gotten it all downloaded and properties filled in. When I went to open iTunes it said I was logged out. Naturally I logged in but when I did it told me that I had absolutely nothing in my library. First thing I did was check iCloud but there was nothing in there for my music, what I bought on iTunes and old files that I uploaded to iTunes. Next thing I did was select scan for media but it kept telling me that I don't have the authority or something to save them to iTunes. So I'm utterly lost at that to say the least and first part of my question is this permanent? With my laptop history it could be may laptop playing up but I feel it's unlikely that that's the case. But is there a chance if I signed on with another device, another laptop, could it be there?
My second part of this is regarding the music I wanted to add. I'm not great regarding apple products but my gut tells me that as soon as I plug my iPad into my laptop to add the new music I'm going to lose everything else, aren't I? And does that affect my images I added via iTunes also?
(P.S. Before anyone says it, and I've been told by multiple people this evening already, I am getting a new laptop. Until now it did what I wanted and iTunes worked, so did the Internet and Microsoft for my university work. But I think it's officially come to the end of its days.)
Thank you for all your help in advanced. This has ruined my evening to say the least.
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