Help please! I can't get songs from icloud onto my laptop.

Hi, I have had a terrible time with my music and iTunes of late. All of which I am sure is because I have installed and unistalled so many times in the last 3 weeks that
I have created a huge mess. I can see the songs in itunes - (most have been purchased) but when I try to listen to them, put them in a playlist and try to burn a cd- I get a message stating that they are not on my computer. I have been trying to download songs from the icloud to my laptop and I get a message that states:
The file name was invalid or too long. Please check that connection to the network is active and try again.
or
There were problems downloading some purchase items.
Before this whole nightmare began I had added "google drive" to my computer and I think that alot of the files are stored there. When I open the music folder the thread goes on and on.and on.. So frustrated. Can anyone help?
Thanks

I fixed my problem - yours might be different, but it might be the same too . . . My problem was similar to what you described. The hardware connected sound was there but the device seemed to not be recognized. Turned out that it was just running very very very very very slowly (thinking that it was an old as hell Iomega Zip dri've)
The Creative device was using a driver written by Iomega (that was the tip off)
Once I got rid of the Iomega stuff, it works fine.
If you have any slower (older?) mass storage dri'ves - you might try uninstalling them to see if that fixes the problem . . .
good luck

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