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what is error (-50)

What is the error (-50) mean?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 25, 2012 7:38 PM

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Nov 25, 2012 7:50 PM in response to Brandon4G

iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3297 > Specific Conditions and Alert Messages: (Mac OS X / Windows) - includes list of iTunes error codes


err = -50 when downloading from store - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3697501 - delete incomplete downloads from downloads folder as per http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3297


iTunes Store: "Error (-50)" when downloading purchased content - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1583


Error -50 is a very unhelpful generic communications error with a number of possible causes. Something between the drive to which you are downloading and the drive from which it is all coming is not working correctly, which probably leaves several hundred options.

what is error (-50)

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