Itunes - Done something stupid, help!!

[hotpotmama]

Was getting messages flashing up when I loaded my pc up about apple sync notifier or something like that not working, my techno dinosaur husband said I needed to uninstall anything apple. So I did (which was really stupid looking back)and itunes is not working properly on my pc now.

Get the message "Apple application support not found, please uninstall itunes then reinstall"

But worried if I do this that we will lose all purchased and other music we loaded onto it.

Can anyone help please? What do I need to do to sort it?

It's a pain. You may need to follow the instructions here I think. Once you've uninstalled everything on that list in order, install the latest iTunes. It should find your music etc again. It won't have deleted any of your music or purchased files.

You could try just installing iTunes again from apple.com/itunes but if you've lost some of the supporting software, you might be as well off starting from scratch by following the instructions in the first link. HTH

Thanks a lot Tech! Will it definitely find my music again? Do I need to save them somewhere else just in case?

If you can save them somewhere else it won't do any harm to do so. The reinstall really shouldn't delete anything, but if you want the peace of mind and you have the disk space, you might as well make a temporary copy until you know for sure.

if you have tunes on your pod to save, then see the thread I started in Geek, where nannynick shows you how to put your ipod music safely on your pc AWAY from any accidents. IT was at the weekend - sorry but I ahve been away from MN and forgot how to do links.

You can also import your purchased tunes from one library to another - go to file menu and there is a link to this from there.