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How do I redownload stuff I already bought? I went to redownload something I already bought but it wasn't free.

l84toff

I'm guessing you mean iTunes store purchases. You simply go and make the purchase again, except iTunes won't let you. It'll give you a msg saying something about you having already purchased this and asking if you want to DL it again.

This at least has been my experience with apps so far.

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chas_m

Note that this applies to apps ONLY. Not movies, not TV shows, not music, et al. Apps only.

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You can send iTunes support an email and explain the situation. Usually they will re-activate the file and it will show up in your downloads section.

Good luck.

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Jugger Grimrodd

I have had to do this.

I called Apple and asked them to re-queue all my purchases. They were nice about it and explained that it would be a one time deal and that I should be backing up my purchases. It was a good experience.

Every item I have ever purchased from the iTunes store appeared in my iTunes download queue. I did some math, realized that I would be downloading for weeks and would also exceed my ISP monthly bandwidth quota. I freaked out a bit and decided that I spend way too much money on digital content. After the crying, I decided that the files that were missing were not worth the time/effort/expense to recover in this manner.

Note: Every iTunes client associated with the account, that is set to automatically check for downloads, will try to download the media files. I have three Macs, it was maddening.

I called Apple and asked if they had the ability to selectively add purchases to the queue? I was informed that they do not have that level of control and that they cannot remove "everything but music". Apparently, they can manually remove items, but it really is a manual process. The CSR has to add and remove check marks.

In the end, I asked the rep to remove all items from the queue.

Perhaps this will all change when iTunes becomes a cloud based service? I hope so

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bsenka

That's interesting. My experience has been that I can't get rid of iTunes content, even if I try. Every time I deliberately delete an album of movie, iTunes automatically re-cues it up for download the next time I fire it up.

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