My iPhone 4 stopped being recognized by iTunes.

It's been about a week since I hooked up my iPhone 4 to iTunes. It no longer shows up in devices in iTunes. I am on iOS 7 (since iPhone 4 won't update to iOS 8) and have an older mac book running iOS X 10.6 (I cannot update the iOS on laptop either). I've seen suggestions to remove iTunes and reinstall it, but the current version is too much for my computer to handle. It does not show any updates available. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Just got my software updated yesterday and tried to synce new iphone 4, but was not recognized by itunes. recognized by iphoto and pics import just fine. Was on the phone with apple for hours yesterday and now my phone does not work because I tried to restore it and got an error message during the recovery. Has anyone resolved this issue yet? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, Clearing the sync history, and I can't count how many times I've restarted my computer. We have a Mac with snow leopard.

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I have tried completely uninstalling iTunes, quicktime, anything apple, and deleting the folders.
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