Okay, so I would like some SERIOUS help please. And if you have ANYTHING that might help me, please tell me.
First off, I'll have to explain all my other computer problems.
This started around two, maybe three, years ago. This computer started just randomly messing up. It'd take around 10-20 minutes to completely start up and it would not load my actual profile. Meaning that everything that was not saved into a public folder, but saved to my user folder was gone. (I.E. log in, save something to the pictures folder, log out, log back in, picture is no longer there.) If I logged out and logged back in, all my bookmarked sites were gone and I would have to log back in to all my regular sites.
At first I was all "OHMYGAWD. MY COMP IS SCREWED TO HELL." But then I got used to it. At the time I didn't use itunes hardly at all because my iphone could access it. Well, I then had some videos that I wanted to add to my iphone from my computer. Well, I clicked the icon and found I had to reinstall it. I was peeved, but I went through the easy process. So I open it up and my entire library is gone. No music. No videos. Nothing. So I was like "Well, my music is already on my iphone somehow (We did something to get my stuff from my ipod [which no longer works. Won't even turn on. Just get a white screen] into my library and then somehow add it to my iphone, but I have no remembrance of how. Some youtube video that I can't find.) so no biggie." Then I tried to just play some music, but all the text was gray. I couldn't click on anything or play anything.
I was pissed now. So, I decided to try and sync, but then it gave me the message "do you want to sync and erase this iphone?" (or something along those lines). Well hell no I did not want to do that. But my music was nowhere but on my iphone. So I had no way of getting those music and videos back.
I left it alone at that point, but now I need to do this. I realize I can't just keep adding music with my iphone. I may be switching out that iphone soon actually and I do not want my mom's money on 382 songs to just go to waste. How much money is that? That's around a little more than $400 if my estimations are correct. We do not have the kind of money to just re-do that. And I'm obviously impatient. I get $10 a month on itunes. That's eight or nine songs a month. It'd take me YEARS to get back all those songs.
I need to know if somebody, anybody knows how to sync an iphone to a computer with an empty library WITHOUT erasing all the media or if there is anyway to get all the music I have ever purchased back into my library.
First off, I'll have to explain all my other computer problems.
This started around two, maybe three, years ago. This computer started just randomly messing up. It'd take around 10-20 minutes to completely start up and it would not load my actual profile. Meaning that everything that was not saved into a public folder, but saved to my user folder was gone. (I.E. log in, save something to the pictures folder, log out, log back in, picture is no longer there.) If I logged out and logged back in, all my bookmarked sites were gone and I would have to log back in to all my regular sites.
At first I was all "OHMYGAWD. MY COMP IS SCREWED TO HELL." But then I got used to it. At the time I didn't use itunes hardly at all because my iphone could access it. Well, I then had some videos that I wanted to add to my iphone from my computer. Well, I clicked the icon and found I had to reinstall it. I was peeved, but I went through the easy process. So I open it up and my entire library is gone. No music. No videos. Nothing. So I was like "Well, my music is already on my iphone somehow (We did something to get my stuff from my ipod [which no longer works. Won't even turn on. Just get a white screen] into my library and then somehow add it to my iphone, but I have no remembrance of how. Some youtube video that I can't find.) so no biggie." Then I tried to just play some music, but all the text was gray. I couldn't click on anything or play anything.
I was pissed now. So, I decided to try and sync, but then it gave me the message "do you want to sync and erase this iphone?" (or something along those lines). Well hell no I did not want to do that. But my music was nowhere but on my iphone. So I had no way of getting those music and videos back.
I left it alone at that point, but now I need to do this. I realize I can't just keep adding music with my iphone. I may be switching out that iphone soon actually and I do not want my mom's money on 382 songs to just go to waste. How much money is that? That's around a little more than $400 if my estimations are correct. We do not have the kind of money to just re-do that. And I'm obviously impatient. I get $10 a month on itunes. That's eight or nine songs a month. It'd take me YEARS to get back all those songs.
I need to know if somebody, anybody knows how to sync an iphone to a computer with an empty library WITHOUT erasing all the media or if there is anyway to get all the music I have ever purchased back into my library.