my hard drive crashed lost 70% of my music. dont want to loes what is left

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my hard drive crashed lost 70% of my music. dont want to loes what is left

my ipod still has a good amount of music on it. but it is set ot auto matically update songs. i am scared to plug it into my computer for fear it will delete all my songs. i havent plugged it in a 4 days. one of my playlists is recently added within last 3 days. today when i opened my ipod although i havent connected it to the computer...all the songs in that playlist have vanished. i wnat to connect my ipod to itunes and then manually update songs...
a. can i do this?
b. will it keep my songs?
thank you!

DELL, Windows XP

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 12:02 AM

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Zevoneer

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Mar 21, 2006 2:02 AM in response to djerome

While connecting the iPod to the computer, hold down the Shift + Ctrl keys. This will stop the iPod from auto-syncing with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 3 and 30 seconds depending on your computer. Then go to Preferences>iPod and check the "Manually manage songs and playlists" box.

Another way is to connect your iPod and before it starts to sync, click the little X on the right hand side of the display beside the "Do Not Disconnect" message. The display is the little window to the right of the iTunes control buttons: http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/tunes/1/#1

Or you could look at the method described in this link "How to keep iTunes from automatically updating your iPod" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93779

Go with whichever method you feel most comfortable. If at any point you are asked if you want to link your iPod to a new library, click No.

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