Purchased songs download to wrong location

When I purchase songs from iTunes (Windows), the songs are placed in "C:\Users\User\Music" despite my preferences in iTunes indicating the locaiton of "C:\Users\User\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media". But, even more frustrating is the song in the library is pointing to the iTunes folder. Therefore, after downloading a song...iTunes can not find it. What can I do to fix this?
-JMS

Are you booting up the EHD prior to purchasing from the store? If the EHD is not booted up prior to doing anything in iTunes including purchasing the drive location for the iTunes music folder will revert back to the main drive.

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I have another issue... I store all my music on an external hard drive. But When I purchase songs from iTunes Store, they download to a local drive. It's a My Music Folder and has Itunes and Itunes Library in it, but it's not where my music is supposed to go. How do I tell it to download to the external drive?
In Edit/Preferences/Advanced I have it set to look for music in my external drive.

Are you booting up the EHD prior to purchasing from the store? If the EHD is not booted up prior to doing anything in iTunes including purchasing the drive location for the iTunes music folder will revert back to the main drive.

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Hey there!
Thanks also by replying... It seems that my library is back to normal now... But as soon as it starts asking for original file locations, I'll try that what you told me!
Merci and have a good day!
Vincent

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I`m working in windows 7 professional 64 bit with a Gmail account
I`ve set the location for the mail on my E disk rather then my C disk. (E:\Thunderbird)
Nevertheless thunderbird keeps downloading to C:\Users\T\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird.
Somehow my emailsignature doesn`t come through, my contact favorites have gone, as are the dictionarries and the agenda.
I would like to be sure all the links are set correctly and no mail gets lost.
Thank you.

''TK56 [[#question-1043783|said]]''
<blockquote>
I`m working in windows 7 professional 64 bit with a Gmail account
I`ve set the location for the mail on my E disk rather then my C disk. (E:\Thunderbird)
Nevertheless thunderbird keeps downloading to C:\Users\T\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird.
Somehow my emailsignature doesn`t come through, my contact favorites have gone, as are the dictionarries and the agenda.
I would like to be sure all the links are set correctly and no mail gets lost.
Thank you.
</blockquote>
''TK56 [[#question-1043783|said]]''
<blockquote>
I`m working in windows 7 professional 64 bit with a Gmail account
I`ve set the location for the mail on my E disk rather then my C disk. (E:\Thunderbird)
Nevertheless thunderbird keeps downloading to C:\Users\T\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird.
Somehow my emailsignature doesn`t come through, my contact favorites have gone, as are the dictionarries and the agenda.
I would like to be sure all the links are set correctly and no mail gets lost.
Thank you.
</blockquote>
''TK56 [[#question-1043783|said]]''
<blockquote>
I`m working in windows 7 professional 64 bit with a Gmail account
I`ve set the location for the mail on my E disk rather then my C disk. (E:\Thunderbird)
Nevertheless thunderbird keeps downloading to C:\Users\T\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird.
Somehow my emailsignature doesn`t come through, my contact favorites have gone, as are the dictionarries and the agenda.
I would like to be sure all the links are set correctly and no mail gets lost.
Thank you.
</blockquote>
Thank you very much Zenos!
I had the intention to move to whole lot but did not see or overlooked the part about moving the profiles to the same location.
I`ve done this now.
The favourite contacts and dictionarries are still missing but this a very minor issue.
Thanks for the swift help!

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Hello mercdw,
Once the music has been downloaded to your iPhone, you can transfer purchases from your device to iTunes.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
Alternatively, the following article provides further information regarding this error and steps that can help resolve the issue.
"Error -50," "-5000," "8003," "8008," or "-42023"
These alerts occur due to timeouts or conflicts trying to write a file during download.
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See iTunes 9: "One Moment Please" or "Error (-50)" message when accessing iTunes Store
If you encounter this issue while while downloading something from the iTunes Store:
Delete your iTunes Downloads folder, located in:
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Windows Vista:  \Users\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
Windows 7:  \Users\username\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
Windows XP:  \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Downloads\
After locating your iTunes Downloads folder:
Quit iTunes.
Delete the Downloads folder on your computer.
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Choose Store > Check for Available Downloads.
Enter your account name and password.
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iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3297
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I recently had to wipe our computer due to corrupted files. I was under the impression that I saved all of the music that we had purchased and downloaded from itunes, however when I went back to retrieve it I could not find its location. Is there any way to re-download our already purchased songs onto our computer again since we have already paid for them?
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Sorry, but officially Apple does not allow redownloads of purchased items other than iPhone/iPod touch applications. It's your responsibility to make backup copies in case something goes wrong with your system, as unfortunately it apparently did in your case, and you lose all the information on your hard drive. The official statement of their policy can be found here, among other places. If your hard drive was erased and you don't have a backup of your purchased items, and don't have them on an iPod, you're probably out of luck and will need to repurchase your tracks.
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