Why does itunes keep dropping my devices and files

Everytime I set my iPods asides for a few weeks and then reconnect them to iTunes they will not sync. iTunes flushes all the content I've loaded from CD's <1,000 songs plus audio books. iTunes wants me to re-register and reload everything. This has appened three times in the last year. It happens on both my Windows and OS X machines. I have an iPod Touch and an iPod classic. ITunes refuses to allow me to keep both devices and computers in sync. Before I spend the two plus days to reload again I would like to know what the heck is going on.

Why? Sony Viao by any chance? That comes with some media scanning software which has a habit of interferring with iTunes when it save files, resulting in a corrupt or missing library. Anti-virus software may also possibly be a cause on occasion.
See this User Tip for an effective backup strategy.
I've also written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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I'm not sure why this happens, but I found a workaround. Below the album title it will list the artist(s). The issue seems to happen when there are multiple artists. For example, an Album titled "Over the Sea to Skye" has The Chieftains and James Galway as artists. Some tracks (for whatever reason) will list only one of these and result in the playlist showing what appears to be multiple albums. You can click on the artists and it will highlight. Paste in what is appearing on the other "albums" and it will then show as one:
Hope that is somewhat clear enough to help. Doesn't fix whatever the issue is but it is a workaround. For me this is only happening with CD's that I have imported.

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I thought at one time you there was a setting to prevent iTunes opening when a device was plugged in, I don't believe that the sync option will prevent that.
In your login items, System Preferences/Users and Groups do you have an item "iTunes Helper" I think this is the application monitoring the devices you plugin.
You could try closing that application in Activity Monitor and plugging your devices in and checking if it stop iTunes opening, also check if it stops it opening through the day. If it does just remove it from your login items after confirming it does not impact on other iTunes uses.

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Press *and hold* the shift key while starting itunes. Browse to the ITL file in the test folder when prompted.
Close itunes, reopen, and see if your library is OK - it should keep using the ITL file in the test folder.
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And you just faked it out by creating the test folder it didn't know about.

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kthersh wrote:
This still doesn't work for me because the next time I sync it trys to reinstall them again.
Then you're doing something wrong, perhaps you need step-by-step instructions.
Re-read my post carefully. Follow the instructions, carefully - that is;
To leave the App on your phone
Connect your iPhone to your iTunes Library
Look on the Device/Apps pane (tab). In other words, in the left hand window of your iTunes, you will see Devices listed once you plug in your iPhone and under that list of devices will be your phone. Select that device (your phone).
On the Device panes, look at the top menu bar for the Apps. Select Apps.
On the Apps pane, you will see the tick-box Sync Apps and below it is a list of Apps in your iTunes Library. To the right is your iPhone and the Apps on the iPhone.
In the left section - the list of Apps in your iTunes Library - untick the App you wish to remove
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So, the other day, I opened up iTunes to find that all of my music and movies (all media at all) was gone. Well, darn. I looked in my previous saved libraries and the most recent file was from a minute or so before I discovered the problem - so, an empty library. Awesome. Next, I tried a system restore as my computer had recently installed some updates and I wasn't sure if that might or might not have effected this in anyway (I'm not the most tech-savvy person in the world). Successfully did that, but to no avail. So, I went back to my previous iTunes libraries again and the next most recent one was from last November. ****. Well, I figured, that's the best I can do. So I tried that.
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Wow, this is just what i DO want to happen!
What do you use? I heard that LimeWire does this with iTunes on a Mac, but couldn't get it to work in this way on a PC...
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