What just happened? - iTunes gone crazy

So, this just happened: I opened iTunes and EVERYTHING was gone, all the songs, podcasts etc. I can find them from my computer but they seem to have disappeared from my iTunes. Is there any sensible explanation for this? Has my computer been hacked or could I have done it myself by accident?
Windows XP

Go to my documents/MyMusic/itunes/itunesMusic and see if there is anything there. if not it is a problem with XP.
If all your music is there go to edit... preferences...advanced there make sure your iTunes music location is C:\Documents and Settings\"Your computer name"\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
if not change it to that.
Still no avail File... Add folder to library... Add the above folder to library.

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Please tell me what just happened...

OK. Here is what just went down when I went into a corporate AT&T Store:
1. I told the sales guy that I just purchased a 3G iPhone on June 3rd online, and would like to pay the 10% restocking fee and get a new 3GS.
2. He said that would be fine and started messing on the computer and said he took the phone off my account and opted me back out of my 2 year contract I renewed.
3. The manager then came over and said they cannot issue refunds from online purchases and I need to mail it back to AT&T.
4. The sales guy then let me pre-order the iPhone 32GB 3GS iphone for $299 and said he had to keep my 3G iphone until I pick up my 3GS next friday, unless I wanted to come by sooner and "tell them how to return it to AT&T".
5. He gave me my sim card out of my phone so I could use it on a backup phone I have at home.
6. Now I am home, and AT&T website is telling me I am eligible for an upgrade (although I just upgraded at the store).
Am I officially upgraded? If I order one online get I get the one next friday in the store AND in the mail and have 2, activate 1, and sell the other one on the side? If someone has any idea what just happened please let me know.
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I accidentaly pressed on "forget this devise" in the bluetooth settings. Now my iPhone would not even list my headset. How can I reverse what just happened and connect my headset? Can anyone assit please?

I accidentaly pressed on "forget this devise" in the bluetooth settings. Now my iPhone would not even list my headset. How can I reverse what just happened and connect my headset? Can anyone assit please?

You need to put the headset into pairing mode. The phone should then see it even though you have done the forget this device.

Not sure what just happened...everything just slowed/choppy in the middle of my session

I was working on a project and all of a sudden everything with in PS got noteably slow and choppy. This first happened while using the selection tool (polygonal lasso), which was lagging behind and making late clicks. I finished my selection and noticed the cursor in general was slow choppy still. I saved my work, shutdown PS, then reboot my computer. I reopen my project, the cursor lag seemed to be gone but the brush tool was not working correctly. Instead of making smooth burst of color with one click (gradient like), it now looks like 256 4 bit (old nintendo style) bursts. Or you could say it looks like multiple rings getting smaller and darker, like counting the rings of a tree trunk.
This happens instantly after opening a file of any type and size. I work with CMYK and 300dpi and while working on a page, this just happened out of nowhere.
I have an ASUS G74SX, i7 CPU, GeForce 560M w/2 gig RAM, 8 gig of SDRAM, 3 each SSD 300gigs (this is basically a 6 month old gaming laptop and has been working fine with PS until now). I have my PS scratch disk set to my F drive for all art and there is nothing more than 2 gigs of space being used right now. My RAM used in PS prefs was maxed at 5205k as suggested by the program.
I would post a picture but this forum will not allow a big enough image to show exactly what I am describing.
PS CS6 is fully up to date as well as all drivers for my GPU and the rest of my laptop.
Thanks
Josh

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What just happened....please help

I was offered a downloadable update for iTunes and i accepted and now my entire library is gone....either that or i cant find it. Please help me
Charlie

Perchance you may still have the music files on your PC -- but not seen in iTunes or the PC.
Do a thorough search of your PC for your Music Files using the tips below:
First - Make sure that you enable your Windows Explorer to view 'Hidden' files:
- Open Windows Explorer
- Select 'My Computer'
- On the main Windows Explorer menu: Tools=>Folder Options=>'View' tab
- In 'Advanced Setting' --> Files and Folders --> Hidden files and folders:
-- Select 'Show hidden files and folders’
- Click 'Apply to All Folders'
- Click 'OK'
Then check using Windows Explorer in 'My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\...' for folders containing your music (or wherever you keep your music folders).
Also check in your Recycle Bin to see if you accidentally deleted it. If so, ‘Restore’ it back to it’s original spot.
Then try running a search using Windows Explorer (or similar) for files with the extensions of: m4a, m4p, MP3, OR with the partial names of the songs you are missing.
Do all the above before you decide that your music files have been completely erased from your hard drive.
IF you can locate the music files/folders, we can get iTunes to recognize it. Try one of these:
If you have a backup iTunes database file available....
1a. --- Close iTunes. If you have a backup (or previous version) of the ‘iTunes Library’itl’ database file, then place a copy of that file in the ‘...\My Music\iTunes’ folder (or wherever the current, incomplete file resides).
1b. --- Open iTunes
If you have a full version of the iTunes Music Library.xml file available....
2a. --- Within iTunes: File=>Import and browse to the location of the XML file
2b. --- Select the file and allow iTunes to Import the music information
If no backup ITL or XML files exists….
3a. --- In iTunes choose: Edit=>Preferences=>Advanced tab. Select 'Change' and browse to the music folder in your PC drive (if it isn’t already). Click OK to save that setting.
Then....
3b. --- In iTunes choose: File=>’Add Folder to Library’ & browse to the music folder in your PC drive. Click OK.
Without the ITL file, re-‘Adding’ the music files to the Library will lose you the Ratings, Play Counts, Date Added and Last Played attributes, as well as your Playlists. No real way to recover them if you haven’t made prior backups. Something to consider for the future....
IF your music files are truly gone, and you have some or all of your music files on your iPod, these links will give you several methods of recovering whatever songs remain on your iPod; some free, some third-party software, some more comprehensive for restoring playlists, ratings, playcounts, etc. Read them and their associated links before deciding on a strategy that works for you. There are many various third-party software programs that will offer a more robust process, or an easier GUI. Do a Google search for them if the links below leave you wanting…
Don King Resurrected: Deleted files from hard drive (free user steps – music recovery only)
MacMuse: Computer Crashed (free user steps – music recovery only)
Copying music from iPod to computer (a primer on various methods and software)
Copying Songs from Your iPod to a Mac or PC (resource for 3rd party software)
Senuti (Mac OS X v10.3 or higher Recovery Utility)
iPodRip Software
PodUtil Software
XPlay (Software For Cross-Platform Functionality & Music Recovery)
XPlay Photo Browser (For recovering Photos)
Extremely Simple Method: (just to recover the song files – may not work on a Mac)
1 - Open iTunes
2 - Edit=>Preferences=>’Advanced/General’ tab
2a --- Select ‘Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library’: checked
2b --- Select ‘Keep iTunes Music folder organized’: checked
2c --- Click OK to store changes
3 - Attach your iPod to the PC and hold down the ‘Shift+Ctrl’ keys until the iPod is fully recognized (this will defeat the auto-sync process)
4 - If you get a dialog box to link the Library, decline this option
5 - Within iTunes: Edit=>Preferences=>’iPod’ tab: switch iPod to ‘Manually manage songs & playlists’ – click ‘OK’
6 – Eject iPod
7 – Close iTunes, then reopen iTunes and attach the iPod (it’s in manual sync now)
8 – File=>Add Folder
9 - Browse to and open ‘My Computer’ (click on the ‘+’) and select the iPod
10 - Click OK
-- The music files should start to transfer back into iTunes with its correct information
–-- This will take some time depending on your PC’s speed and the amount of songs on the iPod
No Playlists, or Ratings, Last Played, & Play Count attributes will be transferred from the iPod to iTunes using this method.
If you have problems with seeing the iPod within 'My Computer', try again switching your update method to 'manual', detach the iPod, then reconnect the iPod to the PC.
AFTER recovering your Library, strongly consider developing a thorough backup strategy for just this type of situation.
You need at least two full sets of your music, not including what is on the iPod:
-- One full set on the PC within iTunes (on internal HD or ExHD)
-- One full set on an separate external backup medium (CD/DVD/ExHD/other)
-- One (full or partial) set on the iPod
Music files on just the iPod and only one other medium is not considered having any backup.
If you cannot store your complete music files on the computer’s internal HD, then create and maintain at least two external sets (any multiple combinations of ExHDs, DVDs, CDs).
Backup both the music files and the Library database file (iTunes Library.itl). What are the iTunes Library files?
Here is a post on developing a thorough backup strategy:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1822938#1822938

I'm not exactly sure what just happened

Hey,
So yesterday I was online, and searching for images on google (not adult content, it was a school related search).
I clicked on the the picture and then instead of seeing the picture, I get some kind of warning from safari. I don't exactly know what it said because it happened relatively quickly. All I know was that a pop up from Safari came up that said something along the line about "not closing out and something about scanning" and in the back of this Safari message pop up I saw something that looked like it was downloading (like when you download software, and it has those bars showing you the progress of the download).
I'm really, really sorry that my explanation is as descriptive as possible. It just happened really, really fast, I didn't even get to read the whole Safari message. And then Safari says that it wasn't able to open up the page (it was the page you get when Safari cannot make an internet connection).
So basically I wasn't sure if that was actually Safari scanning the picture before it was opened. (I was even downloading the picture, I was just doing a google search). Or if it was spyware/adware trying to download onto my computer. I don't know if it was successful and was wondering what you guys thought and if you think I should download some adware/spyware. I have Clam X and haven't really used it, but I just used it to scan my documents, and everything and nothing came up.
Sorry if I'm really confusing. I'm just nervous that I may have gotten something malicious on my computer. Thanks.
Btw I have Leopard. I don't know if that changes anything. I just got my Macbook, so i really, really don't want anything to happen to it. Thanks.

I don't think I actually downloaded something. I was just worried because after I clicked on the picture, there was a Safari pop up (containing that warning). And then something on the actual screen, it looked as if something was downloaded (it may have been Safari scanning the picture) because the picture didn't open up, instead the window screen just said that it was unable to open up the page.
I was just worried a trojan or something like that may have creeped in.
I did your window download and it's just says Bio 112 (I downloaded something for my class like a week ago).
Should I be worried? Should I get some type of adware installed?

I don't know what just happened but I had my iPhone 5 plugged in to my computer and itunes popped up and all this syncing and stuff happened and now all of the stuff that was on my phone is gone and all my old stuff from my 4 is on there!!

How do I fix this??

Hi. I'm new to the iPhone, but I have had iPods for 5 years or so. I don't know if it works the same, but here's what I know from my iPod experience.
Each iPod is associated with a particular iTunes account. If you plug your device into your computer, it should see your iTunes account and do what ever you have set your iTunes to do when it sees your device (mine is set to sync automatically). If you plug into a different computer, it asks if you want to sync to that iTunes, and if you say yes, it will replace your content with what is in the other iTunes account.
Still, you say it was your own computer that did this to you, so I'm a bit stumped. It sounds like when you had the iPhone 4 you had different content than when you got your iPhone 5. What was the difference? Songs, contacts, photos, apps, etc.? Do you still have the content of your iPhone 5 on your computer? I have only managed my iPhone with my computer, with the exception of downloading a few apps directly, but those apps get placed on my computer when I sync, so I was under the impression that other things that go directly to your phone would also sync, but maybe that's wrong on my part.
You might want to open iTunes on your computer and go to Store>View My Account to make sure you have the correct log-in. Could it be that you made a new Apple ID with the new phone, and your computer is still logged in with your old one?
Please post back if you find a solution, or if you have any new info.

What just happened to iTunes Movies store?

This new format is terrible.The old format, and choices, are gone. Instead, there is a matrix of subjects or titles. Gone is the scrollable listing of latest releases or Genius Recommendations. There is a sellection of "independent" new releases, but that isn't quite the same as the old format, or as good.

wintermutefa wrote:
Please bring this feature back. This was the only feature I actually used in the app store. Most of my friends only use this feature too. Many people enjoy browsing ALL new apps throughout the day or with their morning coffee.
The app store is pretty much useless to me as a place to browse for apps to purchase for now. The only way I have been using it after the ALL apps page was removed is to directly link to a page (often times an app that hasnt even been indexed into a category yet...) from a 3rd party site.
Absolutely. I'm forced to hit http://www.versiontracker.com/iphone/ each morning. But with no picture, and no way to click through to the application's iTunes page (with reviews and screen shots) I am far less likely to purchase anything that manages to catch my eye.
Apple's timing on this latest screw-up couldn't be worse, coming on the heels of the announcements and discussion of the first Android phone and that platform's openness, and the news coverage of the capriciousness of Apple's application approval process. With all the iPhone 2.0/3G, MobileMe, and related blunders, I'm starting to wonder if someone at Apple isn't trying to torpedo this platform. [scratches head in confusion and disbelief]

Please help i'm going crazy with what just happened

I was playing a game, then i wanted to quit, i pushed the menu button but my ipod touch just got in blank i got scared and started pushing all the buttons, now the screen is only in white, it's been like that for about an hour.. what should i do?

Try a reset:
Hold the home and power buttons at the same time until the Apple boot logo appears. No data will be lost.

ITunes gone crazy!

Music won't sync with my iPhone or iPod. When i unckeck the sync music button, it checks itself again automatically and syncs old songs and not the new ones I want to add. It never happened to me before and I dont what to erase all my data from the iphone or ipod. What do I do?

Don't think you can blame this one on Apple.
What/who is Iterative.com?
They have created 3 additional feeds for you which are the 99e podcasts:
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071804.xml
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071802.xml
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071901.xml
In addition to your http://brandspanking.co.uk/podcasts/parker/parkerpodcast.xml
So I think iTunes is just doing what its being told...apparently all 4 got submitted and approved.
**Scratch that.....
Actually...looking at the XML code a little more...you can blame Apple. The 3 iterative.com feeds have this:
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>Mark Phillips</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
Iterative.com is apparently the blog of Bruce Fancher maybe he used your feed in troubleshooting? Sloppy....
Erik

What just happened to my sd card?

Ok so my my 3rd x came today charged it activated it did a reset to make sure there was no bugs....it ran fine for like 2 hours use same sd card as.before but I get an alert saying please insert sd card I thought well things happen so I popped the card out and reinserted the card. Now once the phone rebooted it said sd card safe or ok to remove...then that was followed by sd blank or has unsupported file system? I can't get the card to.load on the old droid x either now I get the.same message on both phones ....this is the same card I've used since october with no issues did my replacement kill my sd card?....I went to my local Verizon store asked the rep he was like uhhh here call customer service so I did and she said let me talk to the instore rep and I did they spoke I got the phone back and she says they will give me an identicle card to the.one I have and she told the instore rep this also he hangs up the phone and tells me "we can't do that here you have to go to the corporate store" I restated that she just said.to give me a card and he says we are a dealer not a corporate store ...I live 45 mind from a corporate store and not off til this sunday and if you don't know this phone is gimp with no sd card many apps wont open or download and no pics can be taken .....do I even want to put another card in this phone I got no.answer on why my card stopped working so I don't know what the deal is....any vzw employees here can you help the call should be on record if you can.

hallcp1019 wrote:
Is the class indicated on the cards I didn't look when I pulled it out ...I got my phone during the fiasco lol when the incredible and x had delays on shipping but was early october when I got it ..once it went bad I couldn't mount unmount format or close the notification had to remove card to resolve this but not surprised if a bad batch has led to issues for people if so it doesn't matter how Verizon patches with updates only new cards will get it done
If you look at the card itself on the right upper corner there is a 4 with a circle around it.
It should look something like this picture.
Provided the Manufacturer likely won't be the same.
I've been looking at a 32GB class 10 for my next phone. They run about $70 now, maybe down to $60 by the time I buy.

What just happened? HD password suddenly doesn't work...

Alright this is a tricky one. W520 w/ Intel SSD.
I've got a Supervisor (SPV) password set for my BIOS as well as a HD password set.
I don't think I had a Power-on password set but I'm not sure.
No problems, my password has always worked.
I'm working and I have my laptop plugged into my LAN via Ethernet and I shut down. I always use wireless but was working with my router settings so had it plugged in via Ethernet this time.
When I start up, it started trying to boot from LAN, I see the Intel Boot manager start up (screen saying Press Ctrl + S to change options), and of course there is nothing on my LAN to PXE boot from so it proceeds after failing.
Then it asks for my Supervisor password, I enter it, works, asks for my HD password, I enter it, doesn't work. I try again, doesn't work. Try a third time, locks me out. I restart the machine.
The next time it asks for my HD password first rather than my Supervisor password, which doesn't work again. I reboot again.
Third time through this charade and for some reason the HD password works now but only to get me into the BIOS -- meaning I've pressed F1 and it asks for my password and lets me into the BIOS settings.
From here I try to remove the User password on the hard drive but it does not accept the password -- the same password I just entered and it accepted.
Now I'm not fat fingering or anything, the password is simple and I'm making sure I'm typing it in exactly correct.
So somehow powering off and powering on with my Ethernet cable connected has majorly screwed up my passwords in the BIOS. I think it was set to re-order boot devices if Wake-on-LAN was enabled or something, but something in that process must have screwed up my BIOS config. I don't know what to do. I don't understand what the heck is happening here. Password works then all of a sudden doesn't?

But the real question is why for the past year did the passwords work and then all of the sudden after this anomaly the disk password doesn't work? I'm not 100% sure of what my configuration was, but I know that most of the time it required one password -- supervisor, and occasionally it asked for 2 -- disk password as well I believe. This may have been related to the Password on Restart setting I think -- asking for the disk password on cold vs. warm boot. But I know both were exactly the same. But after this incident only the Supervisor password worked.

PLEASE PLEASE! HELP .. iTunes gone CRAZY!

I downloaded 3 videos from LOST and all downloaded fine. The next day I tried again (3 more), but my internet conection failed and the videos were left on hold.
EVERYTIME I go to ADVANCE --> Check for Purchases ...
It sort of names one by one, and then a sign pops up saying "There was an error downloading your purchased music. Unknown error has occured: -50. Please try later." ... and that's it!
I've tried for 3 days clicking non-stop and nothing... always the same crap. BUT ... if I download the next episodes to those (which I have been doing so) it downloads perfectly! .. it's just those 3.
I emailed apple support (in case you might be wondering) and their reply was horrible --they said "we apologize you couldn't find your music (music?? it's video!) and please make sure you check on your hard drive since they could be there." <-- that's a horrible answer. Of course they are not there, since they haven't even downloaded.
PLEASE I BEG OF YOU! HELP ME! ... I'm lost without lost --pleaaaaaase.

Your music files are porbably still on your PC. I suspect the iTunes Library.itl file got damaged.
Start reading the 3rd post here, Buegie explains what to do
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1292933&#1292933

Itunes gone crazy! Spurious feeds have suddenly appeared!

First we had the "unable to submit podcast feed" error.
Then there was (and still is) the "cover art not appearing" bug.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I present the "three extra podcast feeds that weren't there before" bug.
Try searching for "Parker Summer Sport" in the iTunes store. Up until last night this produced the "Parker Summer Of Sport" podcast, which is well and good.
Today you now also get 3 other feeds called
"Parker Podcasts99e99a"
"Parker Podcasts99e99a23"
and
"Parker Podcasts99e99a23a"
Will somebody please explain to me what in the name of Steve Jobs is going on???
This is making Apple and iTunes look extremely silly.
Is this affecting anyone else?
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Don't think you can blame this one on Apple.
What/who is Iterative.com?
They have created 3 additional feeds for you which are the 99e podcasts:
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071804.xml
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071802.xml
http://iterative.com/podcast2007071901.xml
In addition to your http://brandspanking.co.uk/podcasts/parker/parkerpodcast.xml
So I think iTunes is just doing what its being told...apparently all 4 got submitted and approved.
**Scratch that.....
Actually...looking at the XML code a little more...you can blame Apple. The 3 iterative.com feeds have this:
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>Mark Phillips</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
Iterative.com is apparently the blog of Bruce Fancher maybe he used your feed in troubleshooting? Sloppy....
Erik

What just happened??? iMessage situation here...

To start it off, My brother and I share the same iTunes account. Today my coworker imessaged me saying she was going to be a few mins late, I messaged her back, saying ok no problem. a few mins later she texted me saying "It's Kelly" The first thing that came to mind was "Well duh" LOL but then I noticed "I" had to wrote to her "who's number is this?"
I never wrote that, my brother called me immediately saying for some reason he getting the iMessage conversation on his iPhone 4 between myself and Kelly and when he sends her a message it's showing up on her iPhone as me and it is shown on my iPhone as well.
What could possibly cause this to happen?? Kind of freaks me out.

This happened to me also. I do not think that the problem is so simple as being on the same account. I have a family plan and use the same Apple ID on all phones. It only happened with one person that I texted. I do not text a lot so I have not seen a pattern. The person that it happened with has a new 4S w/IOS5, I am using a 4 w/IOS5 and the person that I texted is using a 4S w/IOS5. Others that have been txtd have been 3Gs w/IOS4 and 4 W/IOS5. The problem seems more random to me and needs an Apple solution. To stop it from happening or prevent it from happening, turn IMessage off on your phone. You will still be texting the same as before IOS5 and you can turn it back on when Apple figures this one out. Users beware.

What just happened? - iTunes gone crazy

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