HT201272 My hard drive had some issues and all of my music videos are gone.  The itunes store is charging to download them.  How do I get them re-downloaded?

My hard drive had some issues and all of my music videos are gone.  The itunes store is charging to download them.  How do I get them re-downloaded?

From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
Also see this migrate iTunes library post by turingtest2

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