SYNCH ERASED ALL MY LIBRARY AND MUSIC FOLDER CONTENTS

Please help me! I charged my friend's ipod because it was running out of battery power and when I opened my itunes my music was gone - the library is blank. So I looked in my music folder and I can't find the artists there either. Some artists are there but really old things and just a few anyway.
Also, when I go to music folder, there are some old itunes libraries but if I load them they don't open and my current itunes library is not there. Please help! I lost all my music. WHy did this happen? Of course, yes, my settings were automatically set to synching and I removed that now. But can I retrieve my old library anywhere?

I got this same problem. I put my ipod on my dock like normal. iTunes opened and asked to update. After update and restart iTunes opened again and i lost all my songs on ipod. ERASED. GONE.
Apple what is the deal,?!?! Can anyone help us figure out what happened and what to do?

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