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Q: I lost alot of previously purchased iTunes content due to a Harddrive crash (I keep downloaded content on an external drive due to HUGE size of library.) This is one example of what I can no longer find. Shows up in my library, but cannot find it on

I lost alot of previously purchased iTunes content due to a Harddrive crash (I keep downloaded content on an external drive due to HUGE size of library.) This is one example of what I can no longer find. Shows up in my library, but cannot find it on the harddrive to play. Is there someway that all previous purchases can have the cloud icon so I can re-download? Have not been able to pull most.

iMac (20-inch Early 2006), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Jan 4, 2016 5:48 AM

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Jan 4, 2016 6:06 AM in response to DMoir5150
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    Jan 4, 2016 6:06 AM in response to DMoir5150

    Download your past purchases - https://support.apple.com/HT201272 - "Find your past purchases in the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV" "With iTunes in the Cloud, you can access your past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store." - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio availability by country - https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204632); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this).  Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later.  Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks, alert tones, rental movies), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid.  Apple recommends,  "... back up your iTunes library. " (https://support.apple.com/HT201272). http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html - "Some iTunes Eligible Content that you previously acquired may not be available for subsequent download at any given time, and Apple shall have no liability to you in such event. As you may not be able to subsequently download certain previously-acquired iTunes Eligible Content, once you download an item of iTunes Eligible Content, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage it, and you may want to back it up."

     

     

    06/2015 Exact instructions by turingtest2 - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7101454

     

    Download all songs from Match [iCloud] at once  - https://discussions.apple.com/message/18223535#18223535

     

    Aug. 2015 ChrisCA post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/28692305#28692305 -