I ran a spyware program that found some results in my IPOD ITunes
songs.  I elected to remove the spyware.  Now when I click on the
songs that had the spyware removed, the songs are not able to be
found.  The songs still exist intact on my actual IPOD.  How do I
restore the songs from the IPOD back to ITUNES on my PC?

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Clarification of Question by rp2112-ga on 20 Jan 2005 15:35 PST

I am using a windows-based PC.   I would like a solution that does not
create duplicates of the existing songs in ITunes as I have over 1300
songs.

I do not know if you are using a Windows-based PC or Mac.

For Windows...

1. Go to the "My Computer Icon"
2. Then, Go to the Tools >> Folder Options
3. Select the View tab
4. Under "Hidden Files and Folders" make sure that "Show hidden files
and folders" is selected.  "Hit apply to All Folders" and "Apply" and
"OK"
5. Now, go to the Ipo icon under "My Computer" (This should act like a hard drive)
6. Open the "iPod_Control" folder
7. Open the "Music" folder
8. Inside the music folder there should be several folders like "F00",
"F01", etc.  At this point the easiet thing to do would be to select
all of those folders (assuming you want to copy all the music that is
currently on your iPod back to the computer) and copy all of those
folders into your iTunes directory.

9. Then, add the directory you just copied all of your files to on the
harddrive to the iTunes library.

Hopefully, you have keep iTunes directory organized selected.  As this
will then organize the folders according to that system.  The danger
is that you could end up with duplicates of a lot of your songs and
have to delete them by hand.

I hope that helps.  I also hope that explaining how to do that is not
prohibited in any way.

-Dk

Solution: download MP3s in future, sell the ipod to any poor sucker
who will pay money for it, and move on.