ITunes Store Rentals and Time Machine

I tried out an iTunes store rental and it worked just fine, downloaded, watched it, and from my music folder on my hard drive it was deleted after 24 hrs. I took a look in Time machine, and the 1.5 GB file is still on my Time machine backup. I tired to delete it, but my system wouldn't let me. Will my Time machine be eaten up by 1.5 GB files that I can not access if I continue to rent movies?

This is a great question. Here's the thing... Assuming that iTunes Movie Rentals are put into a specific "Rentals" folder (or something along that line), that folder could be excluded from the time machine backups. I have not yet rented a movie from iTunes, so I don't know if it does. Movies that I have ripped from DVDs end up in users/myusername/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies. I would assume that movies purchased from iTunes end up there as well, although I have yet to purchase a movie either. Obviously, you would still want to backup your own ripped movies as well as purchased movies, so if the rentals end up in the same "Movies" folder, you might want to exclude the folder anyway and backup the movies manually.
This is something that Apple needs to consider with their implementation of Time Machine. One sure could fill up their backup drive space quickly if they rent a lot of movies.

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