Trouble Updating Songs on iPod

Ive never had a problem with my mini iPod until this week. I plugged it into my PC on night (like normal) and when I came back an hour later, all the songs were gone even though the songs were still in the library. I reset the iPod and downloaded the newest updater and updated it. I also removed iTunes and downloaded the newest iTunes. Now it detects it, but it wont update all the songs. It only updates about 15 songs at a time, and i have 800 songs to update! I thought this might be a problem with the usb port, so i plugged it into another usb port and iTunes wont detect the iPod, so I had to reset the iPod, and update it, and start the long process again. Is there anyway I can fix this? I dont know if you need this information, but I have a 4Gb mini that was bought in july of this year.
Windows XP

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Any idea on how to solve this problem ??
any help will be appreciated
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okay, we'd better try enlisting some additional technical help then.
we'll get a crash log from itunes, and send it to so someone who can interpret crash logs. (it may take a few days before you get a response.)
Typically, you'll need to configure Dr. Watson on your PC in order to generate crash logs. Windows start menu -> Run. Type in "cmd". Hit return. At the prompt in the command line window that comes up, type in
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And hit return.
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generate the crash, collect the crash log, and send it to this email address
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Hi,
My problem is this one:
I bought an external hard drive (200 GB)
I downloaded the iTunes in that external (H) drive - from Apple's site - than I transferred the songs I had in the C drive, in the H drive.
I didnt know that I should transfer the iTunes library too. Anyway, I deleted EVERYTHING in the C drive.
Than I realize that I dont have playlists in the H drive. Luckily I didnt plug the iPod, because I would lose the playlists I had in my iPod. It took me few hours to write down my 50 something playlists. + 5,000 songs.
I am aware that there are programs that can transfer the songs from iPod in computer, but I read their Websites and I was not convinced of their efficacity.
Than I plugged the iPod. As expected the playlists disappeared, and the iTunes told me that because there is no space enough I had a big folder with pictures - will store TEMPORARY (?) some of the songs in a special playlist called office something (I dont remember) I said OK, but few minutes later I realize that I have all the songs in the new playlist created, were present in my library, so I deleted that playlist. I didnt know that playlist is in fact my NEW library if Im not wrong.
Perhaps Apple should tell me WHAT HAPPENS IF I DELETE THAT PLAYLIST.
As well as when I moved the songs from the C drive Apple should also tell me that I HAVE TO MOVE THE LIBRARY TOO!!!!!. Or much better HE should move it AUTOMATICALLY, without asking!!!!!!!!
Anyway, to make the story short, when I tried to update the iPod, appeared the message:
Songs on the iPod offici cannot be updated because all of the playlists for updating no longer exist
BTW, when I tried to find songs I have in iTunes, using the search function [Start > Search > All files and folders > Look in all hard drives C, D, H] I simply couldn't find the songs.
What I have right now in the H drive is a folder called > Programs > I Tunes and in that iTunes folder I have:
1) iTunes Music Library 3 MB (an XML document) I looked a little bit and I saw: <key>Music Folder</key> <string>file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iT unes/iTunes%
C drive ???
2) iTunes Library 2.6 G, which a window says: iTunes Library.itl = Windows cannot open this file
3) iTunes 4 Music Library, which Windows says cannot open too
4) Previous iTunes Libraries, folder which contains:
- iTunes 4 Music Library and
- iTunes Library; both about 2 GB
5) iTunes Music a list of songs I couldnt found there a song I recently downloaded from Apple.
6) iTunes Music which contains:
- CD Configuration which contains:
- iTunes Resources
- iTunesHelper. Resources
- about iTunes
- iTunes (APLICATION 11.1 MB)
7) iPod which contains:
- bin
- iPod Updater (4 folders)
So, how can I update the iPod?
Also a little strange thing: Offici Properties tells me that I have 14.7 GB Used Space - I opened the iPod and there is NOTHING inside - and iTunes says 31.55 GB (?!) I have an iPod 40 GB.
So pls help!
Thanx in advance!
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hiya!
hmmmm. some other connection issues have been known to cause the -69, although under those circumstances people more typically get the "disk cannot be read from or written to" error message.
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Thank you for your time in advance.
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I suspect that's why I cannot update my songs. I have tried everything for the last 4 hours, including restoring my ipod and my itunes, to no avail.
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