Checking for Available Downloads - ERROR

When going to the "Check for Available Downloads" drop down (because there are pending transactions), I click and wait for my downloads to begin. i get the error "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later".
I am currently fully connected to the iTunes store and searching around on it. I have downloaded the newest version of iTunes and made sure that my credit card information is up to date and loaded properly.
Why does this continue to happen?

I am having the same prob. I have been for a while and i dont know how to fix it. I was hoping I could find an answer here

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Problem started when I tried to download the updated to the Remote App yesterday. I've tried all the obvious things, restarted iTunes, fixed permissions, logout of itunes account and logged back in.
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Have a look at these threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2572431&tstart=15
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12206661&#12206661
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http://www.apple.com/emea/support/contact/itunes/phone_contacts/
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Hi, remainingahab.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is an article that I would recommend going through when experiencing error -50.
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I'm getting this frustrating error message while trying to download a digital booklet for Jay Z's Blueprint 3.
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I also have this same problem with iTunes 9 - I bought a song from the iTunes store successfully, but it hasn't downloaded. When I go to the "Store" menu and select "Check for available downloads" it works for a while and then gives me an error message saying:
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HT203128 "Unable to check for available downloads. The network connection was lost." I have 3 downloads from yesterday that I receive this error code. Any ideas?

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I may have stumbled upon something that could help. A type of "detour" around the problem.
I just started experiencing this problem a few days ago. Anytime I'd try to download a song/video/movie, I would get the message, "Unable to check for available downloads. The network connection was reset".
So, instead of selecting "Check for Available Downloads" under "Advanced" menu...
I logged into "My Account" page in itunes. If there are available downloads it comes up at the top of the page with the option button "Download Now". When I select that -- it downloads immediately.
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iTunes quit unexpectedly during the download of a movie. When I click on that movie now I get the following message: "You have already purchased this item but it has not been downloaded. To download it, select Check For Available Downloads from the Store menu."
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Yeah, I am going to blast my iPhone for the 4th time today and pray this goes away. I had 6 apps showing updates, the 6 badge icon shows on the App Store on my iPhone and, having run them all, the 6 apps have two copies each on my iPhone: one that is the old version of the app and will not run and the other is a faded version of the app with an empty progress bar on the icon. Click those and you get an error message about connecting to iTunes, etc. as described in the article I linked to above.
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When is Apple going to recognize there's a problem? If I can purchase new items and get them to download right away, clearly there is no issue with ISP or Firewall.

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"Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily available. Please try again later." Forever, really.
It all started when I attempted to "Download All Updates" (104 of them) and it crashed. Now it tells me that I've already purchased the items, and to "Check for Available Downloads", which throws the above error for going on three days now. Email support has not answered my inquiry / report.
In the meantime, the "Genius Folks" in the Apple Store inspired me to a partial workaround, at least to whittle down the queue. By installing the apps to my device, updating them there, and syncing them back to iTunes. But I still have a few stuck in some weird state, that iTunes is unprepared to process.
BTW, the geniuses never heard of this problem, even after I showed them that a quick Google search came right back with 404,000 hits. I've seen iTunes unable to connect to the Store when there were too many updates, for years, on both Windows and OSX, and many released versions, but I've always been able to download them individually, instead of in bulk. First time it crashed and left me hosed.
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http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact.html?form=account&topic=iTunes%20Sto re%20Account%20and%20Billing&subtopic=Billing%20Inquiries

HT1725 The files seems to be corrupted. To redownload the file, choose "Check for Available Downloads" from the Store menu.

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I've been getting the message, "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." all September long and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I've been told by iTunes support that it should be up within 24 hours but it's been over 500 hours so far.
I've been told maybe my iTunes is out of date but I have the most recent.
I've also been told it's my ISP/ net connection but I have no problems downloading some things.
I have had 40 items unable to be downloaded for a while and that annoyed me but tonight I tried downloading 5 more songs and then I had to accept a new 'Terms of Service' so I did and then those 5 ended up with the 5 others in some kind of file purgatory.
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And how do you check each pending download? My download screen has absolutely nothing on it. At the bottom of it there is "16 iTunes Downloads Available." I click on the download button next to it and get the same error: "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." Help, I just bought an app I'm dying to play on my iPod!

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I've already 50 files in queue. Some of those files are 8 months old. And recently I purchased a song (the free ones).
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I tried to 'Report a problem.' But I can't report to apple either. Whenever I try to do so, I'm taken to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/#itunescards_andcodes rather than this address http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/songcode/
And the new page has no form to fill up! I just can't do anything. Please help me!
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