Why is itunes deleting my music?

I uploaded a song to my library this afternoon and it deleted two other songs by this artist at the same time.
I managed to to get them back by uploading them from a usb rather than my computer (which didn't work)
I googled the problem and solutions suggested was to upgrade the software.. so i did.
I upgraded to 11.0.4.4 itunes and now it is deleting all of my music.
If you click on one song it will swap it for another and if you try to fix that one it will swap it for another. Some songs have disappeared completely.
This is manking me very sad. I love my music
If anyone can help me I would be very grateful x

You want safe, back up your files. Run a script such as Dougscripts "List MIA" to make sure something isn't missing (at least in terms of resulting in a broken link) before backing up over an older backup. Of course if both the file and the reference to it in iTunes goes missing then it's a matter of knowing something is missing. The only cure for that I can think of is to cumulatively add files to a huge hard drive and never delete anything from that drive at all.
iTunes occasionally loses things. Reason? Don't know. It could be user error. It could be some glitch causes a file to be lost. It could be your hard drive directory is corrupt (verify with Disk Utility).

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