Restore a lost playlist on iTunes 11
Guys. Need a help in restoring my lost playlist. This is the scenario. My primary iPhone 5S is synced/backed up in my Mac iTunes 11.1.3, it works fine, no issues. An other iPhone 3GS which was not earlier synced/backed up with my Mac, synced up newly today. I am intending it to use 3GS as only an iPod. So restored the playlists from iTunes onto 3GS. So, iPhone 5S and iPhone 3GS are synced up under the same Mac iTunes. And then came the accident! I deleted a playlist from the iPhone 3GS unknowingly and synced it back with the Mac iTunes. And now that playlist is gone from iTunes also.
Searched online to restore the lost playlist and followed this fix - http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_recover_lost_itunes_playlists. But it didnt restore the playlist, instead created duplicate of all other existing playlists in iTunes. Additionally it removed all my original setting/preferences for my primary iPhone 5S also (music,app,videos,books etc). Those tabs in iTunes for iPhone 5S were all blank, so it is like i am setting up the phone new. So i put back the removed "iTunes Library.itl" file back in the iTunes library folder, now i am able to see the my iPhone 5S settings/preferences again. Thats a sigh of relief. The reason i give this info is that the above fix didnt work, so i want anyone giving a similar fix to keep that in mind.
So now, how do i restore the lost playlist on iTunes? One saving grace is that the lost playlist is still in my iPhone 5S (i didnt sync this phone yet and not planning to sync with iTunes until i find a fix. however i took a backup with iTunes just in case). And when i connect iPhone 5S to my Mac, the lost playlist doesn't show up in iTunes (the playlist shows up only in 5S), so not sure how that playlist can be exported from 5S to iTunes.
Any help appreciated much..