ITunes is downloading all of my purchases again!

Hello! Hoping someone out there can help. It seems that the other day, iTunes decided it wanted to download everything that I've already purchased again. I'm not sure how to get it to stop doing this, other than by just pausing it. If I clear out all the available downloads, when I close out of iTunes and open it up again, it just starts downloading everything again. I just want this to stop! Can anyone help?

Haha. People who have had a hard drive crash would LOVE for this to happen to them!
Only thing you can do is contact iTS support and ask them to remove the DLs from your DL queue.

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i tryed everything i can in the setting and so on , i even clicked on the downloads arrow to pause it and delete them but like i said it will now stop.
theres apps i just dont want. theres a list of them but theres not a place were i can get rid of them. it also says some stuff about icloud yeah right like i have ios 5 or 7 ha . pod touch 2 is what i have lol . plz help thanks.

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Hello 13579nonylie,
I would suggest steps 1, 3, and 5 of the iPhone Troubleshooting Assistant found here http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone/#section_1. If you get to step 3, close all the apps. Here is step 1 to get you started:
Restart iPhone
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Next, turn iPhone on by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3430
And if the issue still persists in safe mode, I would recommend recreating your iTunes library.
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Regards,
Sterling
Take care,
Sterling

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I recently rebuilt my system, and am trying to rebuild my media library through the iTunes Store. I have authorized my rebuilt computer, and have used the Purchased portion of iTunes to run a "Download All" to my system.
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