ITunes Downloading Errors

Really sick and tired of having to continually delete video downloads and start over because of some errore(-50). I'll have 4 or 5 things downloading just fine and one will stop due to this error message. Usually I can start it up again by deleting and restarting. Sometimes I have to do that several times. iTunes support is not really helpful. They just send me to the same old support articles that are not really pertinent. This just started about a month ago I think. Anyone else with this issue? Any ideas?

I can't say, "Apple is working on it," when I have absolutely no idea and probably nobody who posts here (almost never anybody actually from Apple does) can make that kind of claim -- for all we know Apple may consider it a non-issue or an unsolvable one.  It is an issue that can have causes taking place anywhere from between your hard drive and Apple's so it is hard to track down a specific cause.  Maybe it is Apple server overload or bad server software.  Maybe it is a squirrel.  My wireless ISP connection varies with weather, I'm not kidding.
It was helpful in that questions asking, "Anybody else...?) end up producing a mega topic (and I don't bother even opening those so who knows in which ones I could have posted an easy answer I knew would work) where you'll get a thousand posts with everybody saying, "Me too!" and almost no real suggestions. A search through the forum (as I mentioned) will reveal posts where other have made suggestions and maybe one of those will help you. I've see this topic at least 10 times day in some form for the last 3+ months.  Not putting it too delicately, if you browsed the back posts even for the past 12 hours you would quickly see there are others with download problems, many of them also asking, "Anybody else?"
Things that are for certain was if it was a simple fix such as "click on X, then close the window, it would be posted here a hundred times.  If it is something on Apple's end such as server issues, or a glitch in iTunes programming, you'll have to be patient.  Apple is not a company known to keep consumers continuously updated as to developments and you have to just hope that kind of thing gets taken care of with the next software update.  In the meantime you can send them feedback about the issue:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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