Movie download is overloading my system

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with a Pentium 4 CPU, a gig of RAM and plenty of disk space, BUT.... when I bought the 5th season of 24 (as a lump purchase), iTunes insists on downloading THREE of those half-gig episodes at once! Even my cable connection can't handle that, much less my system resources. I either lock up or crash.
I can't find a way to tell it to download one episode at a time, the way it does when you buy multiple, single episodes. Any ideas?

Du-h-h-h! I just figured out my own problem. When you buy a TV series, the new 7.0 downloader shows them all on your download screen and tries to download as many as possible simultaneously. This can overwhelm your system resources.
Open the "Downloads" window, and click the "Pause All" button in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
THEN, scroll up the file list to the top of the paused downloads, and click the little, round RESUME button on the right side of the screen, on the same line as the first file.
The first file will begin downloading. When it's finished, RESUME the next file and so on.
It ain't elegant, but it works!

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I need some help with my ipod touch 4
I download the movie but it showed that i dont have enough space and it wont let me to remove or delete the movie. I tried everything but no luck. I dont want to see unfinished movie download stuck in my download for vidoes. I want to remove it ASAP so i can download any program in future.
I tried it all day but no luck. So frustrated.

Yea - that's what I'd try'd first. Unfortunatly the Snow Leopard Server was not able to remove those Items from the Mountain Lion System after the update. So I updated also the Server to Moutain Lion Server. The interessting part was, that after the server update the MPB wasn't registered any more on the server. So I'd registred it again und published a new Dock policy. That worked fine so far, and brought up this nice new policy icon in the system settings and removed the broken link. How ever, the plan was to deregister the MBP again because I dont want to manage it over the server anymore. At this point I'd faild and get was back to starting point, because the stupid system restored the old brocken links...
I guess I have to understand how ML store the non users specific Dock settings as well as the network registrations from the old system if I want to fix it. Unfortunatly I did'd find an answer to that quastion. So maybe you have an idea?
kind regards
CaptainDXB

How to remove remnants of a failed iTunes movie download?

Hi, please let me summarize my recent experience with an iTunes movie rental. At this point, I mainly want to know how to regain the space on my iPad. The whole disgrace of why the download was slow, why iTunes on my mac did not know about the rental initiated on my iPad (so I had to buy it again), or the fact that after the failed download iOS seems to have left a huge blob on my iPad "forever" stands here to flag this issue for fellow users and Apple.
Let's start with the issue that would help me solve the situation as things stand now: Now I have the movie downloaded to my mac's iTunes, finally, but now I cannot sync it to the iPad, as the latter has no free space --- as the failed download of the movie there left there a large "file", which I cannot remove. The file is not seen by the iPad's iTunes Store or Movies apps (there I deleted what I could), I closed both apps specifically, I restarted and synced the iPad multiple times, but the free space is not recovered.
The background is that our Friday movie night ended up being a 4-hour ordeal attempting to have a fraction of the movie downloaded to start watching, and even worse, the download did not finish (or even continue!) while we started watching, but failed, and failed miserably, losing me even more time now. I started renting the movie one more time, then on my mac, hoping that the download will be faster there, but it wasn't, and now that I have the movie, I still cannot play it on my $500 "resolutionary display"...
Not even to mention that iTunes on my mac did not know about my rental on the iPad. So instead of the promised "seamless" continuiation of the movie on the MacBook (which I hoped will have a[n even] better connection to the iTunes Store, partly because of its better antenna --- it did not), I had to pay up again, restart the download, and still see it only trickling down.
The whole problem started with the download speed being unacceptable. I checked my downstream bandwidth, which was 16 MB/s. Then offering me to download the movie in 5 hours or so is more than disappointing.
Funnily enough, in the end now my mac's iTunes realized that there were a purchase on my iPad, and restarted the "original" download. So now I have two 4.5 GB copies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on my mac! What a waste of space and bandwidth. But of course, iTunes keep track of me having started "watching" one of them, so that will soon expire. Pfff.
What a disgrace this is. Google Play, Amazon Instant, Netflix must be gleaming. I only tried iTunes for the 1080p experience on my expensive new iPad.

And there was more. I had to re-rent the movie on Google Play and finish it there, because the iPad won't play its downloaded fragment, nor did my mac's iTunes, which already downloaded two copies of "Happy" and three copies of the twice-rented Tinker, Tailor..., would show ANY of that under Rentals nor allow copying ANY to the iPad during syncing (though the movies at least showed up there, see the note three steps above this).
And iTunes would still start downloading another copy of both movies whenever it checks for "unfinished downloads". I think my HDD will be fully of copies of the same movies soon.
And the iPad still have a huge chunk of "Tinker, Tailor..." lingering on somewhere in the non-transparent file system...
At least the iTunes support guys ("Express" Lane after 24 hours, though over a weekend) were nice in their email, and I got my money back. Now I only need my time, sanity and storage space back.

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When I downloaded the Mavericks Operating system to my MAC computer, the mac stopped recognizing my T4i camera. How do I fix this.

Apple has an article stating that your camera's digital RAW format is supported. I don't know if that implies the camera too.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5955
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Hi,
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3. And again execute the program RSAQR3TR with Import option by providing the TR (source System ).
now it will store all the objects into new TR . ( target system ).
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Is it possible to move download folder and contents to an external disk

my download folder is very large.
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can i move folder to an external drive for safe keeping?
have tried to copy but this still leaves original files in download folder
any help apprecietated.

The Downloads folder is a "System Folder" and you shouldn't move it. Anything that you don't need in the Downloads folder you can delete.

I have like five GB's of ghost data (data the device claims is not there but it is still taking up space) on my I pad 2 from a failed movie download attempt. How do I fix that with out resting my iPad? I have only 1GB left of storage

I have like five GB's of ghost data (data the device claims is not there but it is still taking up space) on my I pad 2 from a failed movie download attempt. How do I fix that with out resting my iPad? I have only 1GB left of storage
The movie had gotten to the point that I could watch it all the way through but it still said processing and got stuck at that point and when I turned off the wifi to try to restart it, it deleted its-self but did not free up any of the storage It was taking up
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When I try to enter codes for digital movie downloads it tells me "code redemption is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." Customer support has been no help. Anyone else have this problem?

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Am sick of going back and forth with what has turned out to be worthless customer support. Have sent them so much info and pictures, no help. All they do is send me links for instructions on how to redeem the codes. I know how to redeem, I have redeemed at least 50 codes. To them I am obviously an idiot though. To me it seems to be a problem on their end, but can't get an answer from them on why it is telling me code redemption is unavailable. Please help! Anybody!

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Hiya,
I recently bought the Avengers off iTunes [HD, trying 1080p] but everytime the download gets to around 1.64GB, the timer vanishes and the progress bar stops going up indefinatly, though it says it's still downloading.
The iTunes extra part of the download has installed and works perfectly (it was a seperate download). Occasionally when using the pause/resume all button to try and get the movie download to work the extra came up with a -50 error, but after another reset it downloaded fine. Another issue both have had is the timer starts saying thousnds of hours will be needed for the download after a pause/unpause. The movie is watchable upto about 41 minuets after/during every download
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Heya, thanks for replying
I eventually got in touch with iTunes support who could see I still had pending downloads and were quite happy to cancel them and give me a store credit refund. Their advice was to try another movie or leave it for a few weeks as the movie I wanted was under high demand, which may have led to the problems I had (Avengers + Christmas, fair enough really).
...so about 2 days later I tried it again along with the batman trilogy and everything downloaded just fine.
I always hate the idea of going to customer support but I have to say apple's has always been quick, reasonable and helpfull, so just go for it with a detailed explination and you should be fine
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I have a MacAir, mid 2011 model, and want to view video on my TV. I see that I need a mini display port to Hdmi but there are many of these. What exatly do I need and how does one view a movie downloaded to the MacAir on a TV screen?

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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Can I move downloads from one comeputer to another?

I have downloaded music at work on my work computer and at home on my other computer is there a way for me to get the ones I downloaded at work on my home computer?
I hope so. What happens if your computer crashes and you loose all of your iTunes Music?
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Hey Mr. King,
You certainly can move downloads between computers. Check this article for ways how:
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Movie download is overloading my system

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