Can I transfer purchases from one account to the other?

Hi,
I have 2 apple account, and I used both account to buy stuffs from apple online store. Now I want to use one account, but when I need to upgrade items purchased by the other account, I have to switch to that account, which is very inconvenient.
I want transfer all purchased account to one account, is it possible?
Regards,
David Shen

I have just bought a new pc and downloaded itunes onto it, i have logged into my itunes account and purchased a few new tracks which downloaded fine but it will not find my previous purchases from istore. They show in my history in the store but when I click on purchased i can't get itunes to upload the previous purchases. I know there is a limit on how many computers you can download these too but I only have them on one other one.
Any ideas?

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