My Mac HDD failed and I lost all my iTunes purchases... anything I can do?
My two month old Macbook HDD failed and I lost everything (no I hadn't backed up yet)... all my iTunes music purchases went with the HDD... is there any way I can download them again?
Regards
Shane
The policy is normally you can download once and only once and you are supposed to back up your purchases. However Apple has been known to make exceptions if you state your case and have a good reason why you need to redownload. I would hope that because your new MacBook failed that would be a good excuse since it is completely reasonable to expect to have some time to arrange to get an external drive or whatever to backup as you wouldn't be expecting a drive failure on a new Apple machine.
Good luck,
Patrick
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