Accidentally Deleted Purchased Music Folder

I warn users about monkeying around in their hard drives. This is why.

Did you delete a hard drive folder or a folder in your iTunes Library? iTunes would have asked you about removing files from your hard drive. If it was a folder on your hard drive, did you Empty Trash? If not, it's still there, in the trash. Move it back - and leave it alone.

Tracy

Yeah I just realised I did this too yesterday..... Anyone know if you can re-download the purchased Music from I-Tunes?

I have no experience with the iTunes Music Store. I wonder if that folder was a "smart playlist"?

Tracy

You could try and reinstall iTunes and see if it comes back.

You can also create a Smart PL.

MJ

Match any rule:
Kind contains Purchased
Kind contains Protected

When you make a new purchase (or free download) the Purchased playlist will come back.
You can then drag from this playlist to the real purchased playlist.

If you check Live Updating any songs in the Library will automatically be entered in the Smart Playlist.

Tracy

Hi,

Go into the finder from the dock and type the name of a purchased song into the search window top right hand corner. Then try another song. If yes, double click it to play and good luck. If they are on your hard drive, this is one way of finding out. HTH

Cheers George UK

Deleting a playlist does not delete songs.
They should all still be in iTunes.

Hey David!

I know the answer. The same happened with me when I got my 320GB external hard drive and drag my iTunes library to it. My Purchased folder, which I use to play my songs, was gone.
I then took my iPod and told it to sync back my deleted files.

Plug iPod > Go to Files > Transfer Purchases from "David's iPod (I don't know what you call your iPod 😉 ). And there you go! Your files will download again into Purchased, which will re-ppear.

Tell me if it works! (by the way, it's the same with iPhone)

Vincent

I hope you have an iPod... Otherwise, I don't know how to solve your problem.

Vincent

Hi David,

1. Buy another song, as previously mentioned (iTunes will recreate your purchased folder automatically)

2. Within iTunes: go to your entire music library (make sure the "Kind" column is displayed, the one that shows whether your songs are formatted in MP3, AAC, Protected AAC, etc.)

3. in the iTunes search field type: protected

4. all of your purchased music should pop up > select it all and drag and drop it all into your newly recreated "Purchased" folder.

note: if you have any drm free songs this method will obviously not work for those particular songs, and whatever song you purchase to recreate your purchased folder will end up twice in that folder.

Joe

I had the same issue, my bad, this worked perfectly! Thanks ! Bobby

Joeyoppo is also right!

Hey David, we're all trying to help you out here, tell us if your problem was fixed. 😉

Vincent