Download stops and I get err = 8008

Come on guys, apple is of no help and really could care less. Does anybody know how to fix this problem

Yes Apple does care. Contact them. I have never not gotten a reply or help from Apple with any purchase I was having problems with. Even got a refind once for a $99 purchase. They do help.

Its in music.

When you say it keeps happening, are you saying that after it fails, you remove the corrupted partial download, the download starts again from 0%, and it progresses to another point before it fails? Many people are deleting the file from iTunes and assuming that it removes the corrupted file. It doesn't. If the file keeps failing at the same point, you may not be deleting the file. See instructions above in this thread for removing it and restarting.

If you are deleting the file correctly, then the root cause of this is an interrupted download. Are you downloading the files wirelessly? Or is your internet connection a bit flaky? Test your connection with a broadband speedtest site (like http://www.speedtest.net/) and post your results here. If everything looks okay, then I'd scan your computer for viruses / spyware to make sure you aren't losing CPU cycles that could be interrupting your connection (e.g. being part of a botnet). Good luck!

Yes I am 100% sure i delete the cirrputed partial download and the download starts over again from 0% I am not downloading from a wireless modem and the download fails at differnt poits. 20mb,80mb,50mb........... The results of my speedtest are 4854kb/s download 329Kb/s upload and my ping is 30ms my ISP is charter communication. I do a anti virus scan twice a week and run adaware 3 times a week

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I was trying to download an episode of Chuck when I got err=8008. When I go to the downloads part it looks like a notepad and it only shows two songs that i already downloaded. No Chuck. How can I erase the Chuck download?

Are you saying you have some files in your Download directory but they don't look like Chuck? Your iTunes download directory should generally be empty unless you are in the middle of some downloads, so I would verify that you are indeed in:

C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
\Downloads>

And erase all the files that are in there. Once the files are gone, go back into iTunes, select "Check for Purchases", and the files will start to redownload from the beginning. Good luck! I've also become a fan of Chuck--and Yvonne Strahovski. 🙂

Strange. Your connection appears more than fast enough to download a large movie, so about the only thing else I can suggest is to try and download your movie on another computer. If it works, you can sync it to your iPod, bring it back to your machine, and resync it back to your PC. That would at least point to an issue with either your connection or your PC as potentially causing an issue, although I'm stumped for what that might be. If you figure it out, it would be great if you posted your finding here so we can all be on the lookout for the issue you are seeing. Good luck!

I got it to work here is what I did. I changed the destination for my Itunes downloads to a different folder and it worked the first time. Not sure exactly what that means but it fixed my issue for now.

I have a song that got aborted mid download because I had to click my approval of a new Terms of Service. The song never appeared in my "Purchased" playlist. Per the suggestions in this thread I deleted the temp download from the itunes download folder. But when I check for purchases it says all purchases have downloaded. Any ideas?