I’ve read of it happening to others, and now it’s happened to me. I discovered this morning that iTunes 9.2 on our iMac had deleted all but a handful of applications, with broken link icons everywhere. I searched the computer and I searched the external backup drive, to no avail. It would appear that while iTunes did a mass delete on the hard drive, it left my iPhone and partner’s iPod Touch alone. That’s why I only noticed the apps missing now, when they could have been missing for some time and probably were because the backup should have contained [...]