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If i uninstall itunes the re install it am i going to lose my library and playlists?

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No. If you didn't delete the iTunes library folder, you can still see the library and playlist after reinstalling iTunes. However, if your iTunes library and playlist lost, just follow below steps to recover them.
When you find your iTunes playlists are lost, you may want to know how to recover them successfully. If your iTunes lost playlists exist on your iPhones/iPads/iPods, you can make use of Leawo iTransfer to restore them to iTunes from your iDevice.

Step 1. Run Leawo iTransfer and Insert iDevice
Find a proper USB cord to connect iDevice with your computer and then launch Leawo iTransfer. It will detect your iDevice automatically and show its icon in the top left corner of the window. Your iDevice info will be displayed in the right part of the main interface.

Step 2. Choose Playlists to Transfer
In order to deal with the problem of iTunes lost playlists how to restore, you need to click on iDevice icon and then navigate to the menu of "PLAYLIST" and then hit on a specific playlist that you have lost in iTunes. The songs in the playlist will be shown in the right part of the window. Check all songs in the playlist and then right-click on one of them to tap on "Transfer to > iTunes" in the pop-up pane to initiate the transfer process.

Step 3. Wait for Transferring
A percentage bar will show in the window, and you need to wait for the end of the transferring procedure. In a few seconds, your playlist on iDevice will be recovered to iTunes.

If you need to restore another playlist from iDevice to iTunes, you can repeat the steps stated in the above to finish the task. Leawo iTransfer makes the transfer between iTunes and iDevices quite convenient. You can download the trial version to deal with this issue properly. If you find it quite useful, you can upgrade it to the paid version to help you in daily life.
For more details, check: How to Restore iTunes Lost Playlists

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No. Your media should remain. However, if you do not authorize your new installation using the same itunes account you will have issues. Just make sure to deauthorize the previous itunes install before uninstalling. Hope that helps. Good luck.

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Back up itunes i have a hard drive copy and cd copy also u may loose you play list id make sure itunes was updated the reason i backed up im in a view itunes will end up cloud only for most then they may up the fees when there sure most have uploadedits cool u can locate itune on any divice but when anyone has paid for a single album video why should u have to pay for it again this is just my view

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I have done this many times. The answer is NO. However, I have two hard drives and all tracks are first stored on both in folders of different names and then, with iTunes selected as the default player to ope tracks from those folders, I click onto each new track and it then opens in iTunes and becomes one of the iTunes library. I don't think it is essential to do it this way but it gives me the advantage of knowing my over 1,000 tracks are safe and that if iTunes fails, I can go into one of the original folders, select another program to open tracks with and still enjoy them.

Each time I reload iTunes there are some tracks that are OK but others seem to have lost their link with the other folders as 'source' so I have to click on them in the other folder to return them to iTunes. Having said that, every time iTunes issue an update, they load the new then remove the old. Perhaps your safe route is to install the new before removing the old and perhaps this will be done automatically - but first, open iTunes, click on HELP and in the drop-down click on 'Check for updates' If there is one, go for it as you will get your re-install and removal of old in a safe manner.

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Your library is held within your user files at user/music/iTunes. So as long as you don't delete that your library will be safe after uninstalling and re installing. Uninstalling does not itself delete that file or folder. :)

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SOURCE: Playlists & thousand songs dissappeared from itunes

if you synch it yes it will wipe it out - you can get software to back your ipod back to your computer so I would personally delete all the play lists and re do it. your music will be in my documents --> music --> itunes so you can re add it that way and re sort the playlists.

If its on mac os then it will be under your music folder ( macintosh hd --> users --> your username --> music --> iTunes

It may be that your itunes library file may have gotten corrupted so once you have gotten it sorted out close down itunes and go back into your music folder and itunes folder and make a backup copy of your itunes library files.

Assuming your not moving your music files around in side of the music or itunes folder it should be fine.

Anonymous

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just uninstall the software and go to www.itunes.com and and download it. it automaticaly should download the one you need for your computer

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SOURCE: When trying to open iTunes, I get the following

Hello wjewell154 for some reason some of your registry's were deleted from your computer. the solution to this problem is to uninstall your current Itunes software and reinstall itunes.
NOTE:uninstalling iTunes will not delete any preferences, playlists, or content; thing of what you are doing as a manuel upgrade

If you are running Windows Vista/7 goto the Start menu select "Control Panel" from the right column from that menu, select "programs and features" now find iTunes in that list and right click from the right click menu, select the bold option "Uninstall" your uninstall program will gather information about the program and then it will uninstall now click here and it will guide you to the apple website to reinstall iTunes 10
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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 08, 2010

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iiTunes.exe has been set to run in compatibility mode for an older version of Windows. For best result, turn off compatibility mode of iTunes before you open it.

> 1. Make sure iTunes isn't running.
2. Click Start, type regedit, then press Enter.
3. Navigate to this Registry location:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
4; Its better you clean/repair Windows registry with RegInOut.
4. Look in the main pane for a key that refers to iTunes. If you find one, delete it, then exit the Registry.
5. Start iTunes. The offending message should be gone!

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