itunes deletions

Do you have your ipod touch set to manually sync with itunes?

As you can see from these forums there are many people having problems with purchased content, especially those with there ipod set to manually sync. The only solution I've seen as of now is to leave your ipod set to automatically sync. Also follow apples warning when you purchase content from them, BACKUP your purchases, this is your responsibility, no matter how or under what circumstances your purchased music disappeared.

Load itunes and go into your account and look under you history and then for each purchase send in a problem report and Apple should let you download the music again, either that or call them.

First off you don't need to set the ipod to manually sync to determine what is going to be synced to it. Simply set up a playlist or playlists and add whatever content you want synced to the ipod to the playlist - which will sync automatically. Same with the movies select the movies you want or don't want to sync. Obviously I already stated that their is a problem with manually syncing, and of course they are going to look at it, that doesn't mean you keep using it, and complaining when you have problems. You now know there is a problem, so stop using it until its fixed, and verified fixed. If you backup up once a week then that is saying that you don't mind losing a weeks worth of downloads. Further more you now say it has happened more than once, yet you continue to purchase music off of the ipod knowing already that you have a problem. Once again if you are having a problem then I would not use that function until you can be sure it is fixed in a later release.

Thats obviously not what I said. Don't use that one particular feature until you know it works correctly, now that you know there are problems. Actually you can do whatever you like, just be warned there are people experiencing problems in this area so best to steer clear until all the bugs are worked out. If you weren't looking for advice from other users then you shouldn't be posting here. This is a user to user help forum, not a forum for reporting problems to apple.
"...Just cause iphoto deletes all my photos, should I just not use it even though I paid for it?"
Yes I would hope that if you know there is a good chance iphoto is going to delete all of your photos that you wouldn't use it. And at the very least if someone recommended a different way to use it, that would lesson the chance that it was going to delete the photos, I would give it a shot....
but thats just me.

Everything I have ever bought directly on my iPod Touch is now absolutely gone from both the iPod and my computer. I use manually sync. I guess the solution is not to purchase songs directly on the iPod. I don't use that feature very often, but it is pretty cool and "pretty cool" is one of the reasons I bought the iPod Touch in the first place.