HT4527 Hard drive crashed. Saved all my music but my apps are all gone and i cannot seem to get itunes to do a mass redownload of all of them

Hi,
Recently my harddrive containing iTunes crashed and while my music was backed up, my apps were not and as a result when I replaced the harddrive, my itunes could not download all the apps i had and told me to get the files from my other library, which is in the frayed hard drive.
What are my options here? Heard there was a mass redownload option somewhere but I cant find it.

Hi newmarket,
Photo Stream is not a respository for archiving photos. It is a cloud storage device that will store the last month or last 1000 photos taken by any device on the same Apple ID, and then will "share" those photos with all other devices that have Photo Stream turned on,and that are logged onto the same Apple ID.
iCloud backups will contain all of the photos that were on your camera roll the last time you backed up your device.
If you have photos outside of the Photo Stream parameters, and they are not all on your current camera roll, then you have no way to retrieve them unless you have imported them to the computer you sync with or have uploaded them to some other cloud service like DropBox.
Sorry,
GB

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