I deleted all my songs off my hard drive and I went to download them again, and i can't, is this normal?

I deleted all my songs because for some reason they were all duplicated on my list, so i had to listen to every one of them twice so I didn't want to have the same problem when I redownloaded it.
I'm new to the digital era so you can only download the songs you pay for once? This isn't a joke right?

Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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I complained and eventually was put in touch with a supervisor, who I was told had authority to resolve the issue. She said she would get the shop to phone me. That was ten days ago and I'm still waiting.
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This is an appalling service I have encountered from Apple, and I am not going to ignore it. I have contacted the young chap whose laptop I was erroneously given, and the repair of which I paid for! (although I did eventually get a refund), to ask him if he had been given mine as well. He said he had been completely unaware that his laptop had been given to me and he is furious as he had loads of "sensitive material" on it." I have no idea in whose hands my laptop has been either, or indeed what damage it sustained while it was supposed to be in for repair.

Contact Apple Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
Apple - How to Contact Us:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
Be sure to refer to the repair ticket number.
Sounds like a terrible mixup.
Good luck & happy computing!

HT201269 yesterday i plugged my new Iphone in to my laptop and connected it up with Itunes. Itunes then deleted all my pictures off my new phone and reset my new phone with all the settings of my old phone! how do i get my pictures back?????

yesterday i plugged my new Iphone in to my laptop and connected it up with Itunes. Itunes then deleted all my pictures off my new phone and reset my new phone with all the settings of my old phone! how do i get my pictures back????? Before you say Icloud they are not on there

Sorry you can't. Looks like your phone restore to an older backup.
future reference import your pics to your PC, that way you can always sync it back using itunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083

I just deleted all my photos off my i phone and didn't gain any memory

I just deleted all my photos off my i phone and didn't gain any memory

If the photos were in your camera roll when you last backed up, restoring the backup should recover them. Restoring an iCloud backup requires first erasing your phone. If you have any newer data on your phone since the backup that you want to keep, you'll need to save that first. Then go to Settings>General>Reset, tap Erase All Content and Settings, go through the setup screens on the phone and when given the option, choose Restore from iCloud Backup. Sign into your iCloud account and choose your last backup to restore to.
Make sure you phone is connected to wifi and your charger as this may take some time to finish.

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i have backed my iTunes with over 10,000 songs on a hard drive and than i reset my computer to factory settings because my email was hacked, when i downloaded the music back to my macbook pro only 2030 were able to be downloaded . how can i download all my music back?
michel p.

I usually err on the sideof caution when someone says "downloaded" and take it to mean anything fro actually downloaded, to copies, to imported, to moved (frolder to folder), but even if they were "downloaded"... if the old email was hacked, and subseuqently closed out, that leaves the downloaded files "orphaned" if you will, belonging to the old ID. So, while they may be on the HD, they're inaccessible now.
One of the biggest reasons I NEVER keep anything in my library with DRM employed in it. I bought it. I own it. I'm not going to get locked out of it.

There is more data storage on the hard drive and I can not find it (should be deleted)

Hi I need some help, i recently bought a Macbook Pro, so good with that but when storing my files I realized I had sent more files, I deleted my files and it took me hours! and when checking the status of storage I realized I had more 20GB hard drive and I can not find that data stored anywhere! and i made the securely empty.
P.S. I had a small problem when cleaned the trash, I stopped for lack of time but when i stop it, I realized I had nothing inside then... (should leave something at least, because it was an incomplete process.)
(here says that i have 40.54 GB from other stuff, and i'm just using like 13Gb of my data) its in spanish by the way... sorry for that.
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i am having external hard drive and i can't create a new folder.The option crete new folder is foggy

Macs can't write to, nor create folders on, NTFS formatted drives without the use of third-party software.
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Can I delete the songs off my hard drive?

I have an 80 gb iPod, but no where near that amount of space on my hard drive. I was wondering if I needed to keep the songs on my hard drive to keep them in my iTunes and iPod, or is it possible to delete them and still have them available. I'm almost positive this isn't the case, but I figured I'd ask someone else.

Follow the instructions in this article; you can then delete songs from your computer without them being deleted from the iPod automatically. If you do this, you should keep another copy of the songs, as they can easily be lost if they are only on the iPod.
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ITunes saying - The song "XYZ" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? I have my songs all located on a 2TB hard drive and it still says it has 150GB on it but can't find them and they are there???

Help!
Opened iTunes to play some music on the computer tonight and its coming up that the songs cannot be located for virtually all of my iTunes library??? I store my iTunes library on a 2TB hard drive and its always worked fine but I ran iBoostup software earlier today and its hasn't worked since then although I have to admit I haven't tried it for a week. It was a free app to clean up files on the apps store.
When I click on the 2TB hard drive under the iTunes link it still comes up 150GB is in the file but it just can't find the songs???
Can anyone help?
Cheers!

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Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/13025536 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17457605
The above links also illustrate the Media folder and its subfolders. Look for a file in there in the logical structure by folder artist and album. If you're lucky, linking one file will get an offer to link others and it iwll all come together again.
I see you are running OSX 10.5.8 it would help to know which version of iTunes you use now and which one you used before.

Ok somehow my sister deleted all my photos off my photo booth and now all my pictures in my iphoto i cant view them i just see white dots and boxes can anyone tell me how i can get my deleted photos back and how can view my photos again please !!!

ok so somehow my sister deleted all my photos off photo booth and now all my photos on iphoto i cant view them i want to know how i can get my deleted photos back and how to view the rest of my photos please help !!!!

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Apart from Project Managing and Offlining Ingestedf Files ( Delete Option)..I cant think of any way that PPRO would have deleted your sources files

Run itunes off external hard drive and keep settings

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In addition, what id like to be able to do is, when i come back, copy the itunes from the external back onto my imac with all the new ratings, play counts, and music.
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See this article, iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
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I deleted all my songs off my hard drive and I went to download them again, and i can't, is this normal?

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