computer help: So… I imported some new music to my Ipod nano, when I turned it on ALL of my songs were gone. - Help.com

A song reformmated your ipod rofl.. I got no idea how to fix it tho..

Srry

0oh that sounds bad did you have a back up of it if not then im sorry to say but you may have to download all your tunes again :( an alternative is to delte itunes look in your music folder where they were all stored ont he comp and then install itunes agaion and you may have them back but i think you should go download all ur music again

they gone from itunes?

does it show the ipod on the menu bar under devices?

this should not be too hard, one way or another, the music is still on your itunes and that is what will keep this in my knowledge and make it easy to fix

ok, I want you to unplug the ipod from the computer.
go to the main menu on the ipod. the grey bar on the top should say “ipod” then go to settings, reset all settings, reset. then try to plug it back in after it goes through set up again and tell me what happens

it wont do much since there were no songs on it.

it wont get rid of itunes music dont do anything to itunes itself

in your ipod, on the main “ipod” screen. scroll down to settings and follow instructions i previously posted

the ipod wont turn on?
the menu I am talking about is IN the ipod itself, i thought you said you could see it didnt have any songs on it so can the ipod turn on? can you see text on it?

you completely reset it using the reset option? it showed the info about time and date and stuff again?
now this is strange, im not sure what to do.. i guess you would have to go to the apple store and scedule a genius bar meet for it. not sure what else you can do.

yea ok. i dont have any ideas then. http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/
thats all i can do i guess. there are call numbers for help and lots of troubleshooting here. if none of it can solve it, go to the apple store and talk to them.

Where did you get the new music from? if it was lime wire you could of gotten a virus…

ok first
even tho you are running the ipod in the windows version the ipod is still apple and does not get viruses

next the ipod not regsturing on the computer is not the ipod fault it is the computers fault i think you should update itunes and then when you do that plug in your ipod if it does not show then look it “my computer” if it shows there then we have some options if not then you have to reset your ipod and for that you will have to go to the diagnostics menu
and to do that you have to press and hold the menu and the ok or center button and hold till the ipod shuts off

then right as soon as it is off then press and hold the right and center button until you get a screen with a whole bunch of words

if you have a newer ipod then it will look like this

NTF
Memory
IO
Power
Accessories Test
SysCfg
Reset

then hit reset and you will be new again (hopefully)

then once you are done with that turn on the ipod and connect it to the computer and see if it shows then

then about the missing music if they show on the computer and not the ipod and the ipod registures on the computer then you can try and going to the ipod in my comuter and opening that then showing hidden folders and in ipod controls go to music and right click properties and then at the bottom hit hidden and make sure there is no check and then it will ask if you want to apply to sub folders and files do whatever it says to make is a yes