Cant download past purchases please help

Itunes wont download my purchases. What can i do to get it to download? Leaving computer for hours dont help. I have windows 7

Hi there Colettenhassan,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
-Griff W.

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HT201272 Downloading past purchases -- any help is appreciated

First off, I have read Apple's article on re-downloading past purchases, and it is not working out for me. I've logged into the ITunes Store, gone to Quick Links, selected Purchases, and can view what I've bought there. But, when I look at my music it is already listed as downloaded and does not offer me a chance to download it again.
The root problem is this: When I bought the handful of songs in question (just 15 out of my 750 total purchases), I failed to back them up immediately. Not a week later, the hard drive that the songs were stored on has stopped working altogether.
To further complicate things: I had two hard drives installed. The main hard drive (the one running Windows) was where ITunes was installed, and I had added all the songs from my library on the second, older drive without copying them over to the newer drive. Most had been previously backed up to external storage except for the aforementioned 15. So ITunes views them as having already been downloaded to this computer even though the part of the computer they were downloaded to is not longer working/active.
I've tried deleting the songs from my library -- technically they weren't there anyway at this point -- but they still did not appear as downloadable.
At this point I've considered repurchasing the songs, but I'd like to exhaust any other possibilities first. Any help you can provide is appreciated. Thank you in advance for looking at this and trying to help.

I would be very careful, I selected the upgrade photos and now I have a 200GB library file but no way to access the photos, it appears to be something to do with the 10.10.2 upgrade and the use of an external Thunderbolt drive to store my photos on, but I am nearing desperation in trying to get back my years of photos (last effective backup - despite having time machine turned on) - appears to be 2012.
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Cant download past purchases

I've followed the instructions to download previously purchased songs to iTunes (I am using 10.3.1), however when I get to the Purchased page, I only have the tabs Apps and Books showing. It has no Music tab. I have 71 purchased songs showing in the purchased section on the left hand menu of iTunes so what's going on here? I'm trying to locate a song I downloaded only three days ago on another computer. Any suggestions anyone?
From your Purchased page, click the tab for the content type you're looking for (Music, Apps, or Books).

You can copy the song from your MacBook Air to your iMac, and then add it to the Purchased playlist.
To do this:
Locate a USB flash drive, external hard drive, or some other form of external media. We will use this to copy the song to the iMac.
Open iTunes.
Locate the song in question.
Select the song, then from the File menu choose "Show in Finder".
Select the file in the Finder and then from the Edit menu, choose Copy.
Navigate to the external storage device you connected in step 1.
Paste the file to the device by clicking the Edit menu and then click on Paste.
Eject the device from your MacBook Air.
Connect the device to your iMac.
Using the Finder, open the external device and select the file pasted in step 7.
From the Edit menu, choose Copy.
Navigate to your Home folder by clicking the Go menu option, then click on Home.
Navigate to Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Automatically Add to iTunes.
From the Edit menu, choose Paste.
Now open iTunes, and it will automatically import the song that you pasted in the last step. Once it has been imported, locate the song using the search feature. Once you've located it, simply drag and drop it onto the "Purchased" playlist on the left hand side of the iTunes window. Click on the Purchased playlist to confirm that it was added.
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Still can't download iTunes purchases, please help! incorrectly says "network connection timed out"

I've been trying for 4 days to download purchased media from iTunes and I keep getting this error message "The network connection timed out." I assure you my internet connection works perfectly.
Not sure if this is relevant, but this error spontaneously happened after my most recent purchase on the night of 2/10. I was able to download some iTunes extras right before I made the most recent HD movie purchase, and as soon as I tried to download that, nada!
Here's what I've already tried, but has NOT worked:
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E

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please excuse my ignorance, but do you mean log into my iTunes at an apple store & download my purchases onto a flash? I wasn't aware I could do that...

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