Lost playlists-sync issues

I accidently deleted some of the playlists and songs while freeing up space on my PC hard drive. If I sync my Ipod 60 to re-charge it, will the sync automatically delete those playlists and songs that are still on the Ipod but no longer on the PC? Is there any way to transfer the playlists and songs on the Ipod that are no longer on the PC back to the PC?
dell laptop Windows XP Pro Ipod Video 60G

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You can use something like this...
YamiPod
You can also manually update and delete things on
your computer, and they will stay on the iPod...
Transfer music manually
btabz
Thanks
After being unsuccessful with downloaded versions of yamipod and some other file transfer downloads, I decided to see what the apple and big box stores had. Apple had nothing. I found Tune Tools for Ipod by valusoft.com for $20 at a big box. I only copied playlists from the Ipod to ITunes on the pc. It was intuitive, had drag and drop and did not crash my pc. Did the job.
dell laptop Windows XP Pro

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Hi Apple friends,
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I've read a lot about playlist issues with iOS 5 but I have not heard a mention of anything similar to my situation. I usually sync the default playlists of Recently Played and Recently Added with my iPhone 4 running the latest iOS 5.0.1. I am familiar with the Recently Added bug of reversing the order of the playlist and I thin I can live pretty comfortably with that.
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brotherludi wrote:
My Recently played playlist is not correct. My setting is:
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but it does not work, the playlist is not correct.
Delete the rule saying "Playlist is Music" and see what you get.
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http://www.cubeupload.com/files/45a800smartplaylist.png
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Hi Corey,
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