Deleted all iTunes music, now can't download past purchases. Help!

I've somehow deleted all my iTunes music. All the file names are still in the library but every time I select one I get the "can't find original file" message and now it won't let me download my past purchases. How do I fix this?

Do you still have them in your computer's recycle bin/trashcan that you can restore them from ?
If not then what you can redownload will show under the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store homepage. If music shows there (it won't in all countries) but doesn't have the cloud symbol against then try deleting the tracks so that they are no longer listed in the Music part of your library (where you are getting the 'unable to locate' message) and they should then get the cloud symbol in Purchased. Or you can tick the 'shows iTunes in the Cloud purchases' tick box on the Store tab in Edit > Preferences (iTunes > Preferences if using a Mac) and they should then show with the cloud icon in the Music part of your library so that you can redownload them from there (again you will need to delete the missing tracks for them to potentially show for redownloading).
If you've changed countries since downloading them then you won't be able to redownload them, nor if the rights-holder has removed them from the store.

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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are the steps that I would go through when accessing and downloading previous purchases. If you search for a purchased item in the iTunes Store it doesn't at this time give you an option to download it again.
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Make sure your iOS device meets these system requirements:
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right so... lets get started by saying the other half should never be allowed near anything technical in the house. so, now ive got that little rant over with, down the the issue.
recently my wife was playing on my iphone, which had over 3000 tunes... all itunes store bought. once i got it back and started listen to music on the way to work, i came to realize I HAD NOTHING. now, after a lengthy shout at the woman i proceeded to just import it all back on from my hdd. this is the problem. i never back the songs up and imported it from my iphone to my pc, because i had bought most of them actually on my phone, in the itunes application and never got round to uploading them.
i need some serious help here guys :(! obviously itunes has a record of all my purchases... so how do i go about getting my songs back!!
if i cant get this sorted ima beat the woman that did this and slap her arse onto working the streets... only kidding but i really do need some help with this one!
cheers

aaron1415 wrote:
right so... lets get started by saying the other half should never be allowed near anything technical in the house. so, now ive got that little rant over with, down the the issue.
recently my wife was playing on my iphone, which had over 3000 tunes... all itunes store bought. once i got it back and started listen to music on the way to work, i came to realize I HAD NOTHING. now, after a lengthy shout at the woman i proceeded to just import it all back on from my hdd. this is the problem. i never back the songs up and imported it from my iphone to my pc, because i had bought most of them actually on my phone, in the itunes application and never got round to uploading them.
i need some serious help here guys :(! obviously itunes has a record of all my purchases... so how do i go about getting my songs back!!
if i cant get this sorted ima beat the woman that did this and slap her arse onto working the streets... only kidding but i really do need some help with this one!
cheers
Well, since you can't delete songs directly form the iPhone, you might want to find someone else to lay a beating on. My first instinct would be to blame the person that wasn't "technical" enough to back the music up on the computer.
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I am unable to download old purchases from itunes.
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Yes i've tried all of that. I've turned it all the way on and off and erased all of my music and put it back on and nothing works. And with the breaking up CDs and putting into compilation categories i have already fixed all of that stuff. It's fine it just doesn't show up in the list of artists. I can find the album in the songs category and the albums category it's just it doesn't show tha name of the artist. All of the other albums that i downloaded before i updated my itunes to th most recent update are fine. It's just the two that i downloaded afterwards. Thanks for trying though.

Deleted all iTunes music, now can't download past purchases. Help!

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