lost itunes music

[kimando]

This may be a lost cause, but i'm hoping someone here will be able to help me.

I only have a 70GB internal harddrive on my PC on to which my music was stored, so when i ran out of space i transferred it all to my 500Gb external drive, everything fine so far.

Because the files were not in the original file location i deleted all of my itunes library and then re-imported it from my external drive. Most of this has worked fine, as I seem to have regained most of my collection, apart from the music purchased from itunes store.

This used to be stored in a folder on my hardrive, but after deleting my library it seems to have been deleted too somehow. I spent a decent sum of money purchasing select tracks i really wanted, and now they've all gone, is there any way that they can be retrieved?

Thanks for any advice

[Fawksie]

Yes, they'll let you re-download them, if you ask them.

Fill in this form with the name of the account you used to download the tracks, and they should sort it out.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/

[kimando]

Thanks for the link, I've emailed them with my order numbers, but it says on a FAQ that I should have made more backups and they do not allow for tracks to be downloaded more than once. Annoying thing is that I thought it was all backed up to my external drive.

I'll wait and hope from a response from them ASAP.

Fingers crossed!!

Quoting Fawksie from 00:17, 2nd Apr 2008
Yes, they'll let you re-download them, if you ask them.

Fill in this form with the name of the account you used to download the tracks, and they should sort it out.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/

[Fawksie]

According to various reports, they may admonish you, but they've let people download the same tracks many times in a year. I don't think they check.

[munchingfoo]

You can certainly download the same track multiple times to multiple computers (I think the max is around 6). Maybe you can get round it this way?


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[just_looking]

Go to the pirate bay. Download the same songs for free

[kimando]

Itunes emailed me back allowing me to re-download all of the songs I lost just by clicking on the store tab, then check for purchases. I'm happy, and backed up all the music too. Don't want this happening again!

[Guest]

And another sinner success story, congrats

[Guest]

Go to the pirate bay. Download the same songs for free

agreed