Safety of existing selections when reinstalling iTunes.

I have an existing iTunes account with just under 16000 songs on it. About 3000 of those songs are checked, and those are the ones I want to sync to my "new" 6th gen nano. If, in the process of getting that to work, I have to reinstall the newest version of iTunes over the old one, will it erase all of those check marks? It would take me all night (maybe all weekend) to go through and recheck all of those songs. I will do it if I have to, but I don't really want to pull the trigger until I know what will happen, and I'm sure that's the only way. FYI, I currently have itunes version 11.0.2.26 installed. For all I know, that is the current version.

RNorman62 wrote:
I have an existing iTunes account with just under 16000 songs on it.
You mean iTunes library. An iTunes account is what you use to purchase from the iTunes store.
About 3000 of those songs are checked, and those are the ones I want to sync to my "new" 6th gen nano.
You would be far better off leaving everything checked, creating a playlist to sync and syncing only that playlist instead of using checkmarks.
If, in the process of getting that to work, I have to reinstall the newest version of iTunes over the old one, will it erase all of those check marks?
No.
However, you do have a backup of the entire /Music/iTunes folder, correct?
The iTunes library info is in the /Music/iTunes/iTunes library.itl file.

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