Error downloading movie!

I purchased a movie today from iTunes (obviously) and it was working for awhile until it suddenly stopped and said: download error, tap to retry. Well, I've retried a million times but still it won't attempt to download for more than 2 seconds before it says "download error" again. What do I do? Thanks

Toshiba Satellite, Windows Vista

Posted on Mar 17, 2011 9:44 PM

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Mar 19, 2011 5:04 PM in response to deggie

iTunes on my Mac shows that I have Downloads available, but won't let me download them. iTunes on the iPad lets me download said downloads, but I also run into the Downloading Error/Tap Arrow to Try Again. Repeat ad infinitum.

All times, guess what? I've been charged. Call them. They credit my account. Rinse and repeat.

Mac OS X SL 10.6.6 + iPad1 iOS 4.3, attempting to rent 127 hours. In most instances, the download actually gets to the end (1.3GB of 1.3GB downloaded), but then errors out. So it might be some sort of authorization error?

This was made even more frustrating when I was attempting to download this film while on vacation in Lake Tahoe. Download completed, but it never appeared on my iPad. Thus, I wasn't able to download it on my Mac (which was at home), then sync it to my iPad. This iTunes+iOS-device physical tethering is getting pathetic.

Looks like I have to surrender to the fact that I will never be able to rent a movie directly from the iPad, essentially defeating its go-anywhere spirit.

Aug 5, 2011 6:06 PM in response to Friends of Apple

The problem seems to be pretty related to the issue I was having.

The only think that debugged the issue was to play a movie trailer in iTunes. Once completed, I went back in the Downloads section and could click the movie to finish the download

See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2421686?answerId=15850724022#15850724022 for the complete posting.


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