Recovering lost purchases

My previous macbook broke last week, and I have since lost all my itunes music as a result. I was wondering, is there anyway to get my itunes purchases on this computer even though all the content of my old laptop is lost?

How can i restore from backup? Do you mean an external hard drive? What about the songs that were not put on the external hard drive but still purchased from itunes?

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Recently lost lots of data and purchases due to Iphone crashing and I had not backed up since Oct. Surely there is a way to recover "lost" PURCHASED music, apps, audiobooks from ITunes, afterall I did pay for these items! Appreciate any suggestions!

I've recently lost lots of data and purchases due to Iphone 4 crashing... Surely there is a way to recover "lost" music, apps, and audiobooks which I PURCHASED from ITunes in the last 1.5 months...? Greatly appreciate any suggestions or direction in this matter!

Note: Previously purchased music is only available through iTunes in the Cloud in Australia, Canada, Cypress, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

How can I recover lost purchases. I updated my iphone and did't back up my information and lost everything. Please Help me.

I updated my iPhone and forgot to backup my information. I need to know how can I recover the apps and the music that I bought.
Thank you,
Manuel Ruiz

No.
Any tracking program would have to be installed and activated before the iphone went missing.
Sorry.

I downloaded music to my iphone and when I went to go sync it up to itunes, I lost all of the songs purchased from that time until the previous time I backed it up. How do I recover these purchased songs that have been lost?

I downloaded music to my iphone and when I went to go sync it up to itunes, I lost all of the songs purchased from that time until the previous time I backed it up. How do I recover these purchased songs that have been lost?

All of your music should be in itunes on your computer.
Select it to sync and sync.

I have pressed a one step-recovery button on my lap-top and have lost all i-tunes data. However, a record of all my purchases still remain on my account. I do not have it saved to anyother device, how can i recover lost i-tunes music already purchased?

i have pressed a one step-recovery button on my lap-top and have lost all i-tunes data. However, a record of all my purchases still remain on my account. I do not have it saved to anyother device, how can i recover lost i-tunes music already purchased?

You can re download past purchases using the same Apple ID for free > Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

HT204053 recover lost app purchased in the past

Hello:
I would like to recover lost app I purchased in the past.
I did an OS upgrade to iOS 6.0.1, then I got about 34 update notifications. The system failed to update after I authenticate. Through research online, I was advise to uninstall the apps and the reinstall them. After the apps uninstallation, I found that I am not entitle to the purchased apps that was installed on my phone earlier. In iTunes, I only found apps I installed in the past year.
Is there a way to recover lost apps that I purchased? I used the same apple account for the past 3 years.
Thanks,
Vu

Cristiano Aguilar wrote:
It seems pretty stupid to buy them again.
no need. see _*How to redownload purchased apps from the App Store*_.
JGG

Hard Drive crashed - no back up - a way to recover my purchased songs?

Hello,
I just had my hard drive crash and I had not backed up the majority of the files on my computer including over 50 songs I had recently purchased on iTunes. Is there anyway I can recover these purchases to my computer?!?!
Thank you!

The policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Once a Product is purchased and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage."
You could try contacting the iTunes Music Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on any of the links on this page you'll find a space at the bottom to email your query: iTMS Customer Service
If you have an iPod with the purchases on it the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod

Again, lost purchases

Once again I have lost purchases. I didn't have a disk to burn the $90+ I spent yesterday in the iTunes Store and this morning my Library disappeared and I had to recover it. When I did the Purchase History was wiped out, again. It is some, part, or all my fault, but so what? Am I expected to purchase these songs again? Why hasn't iTunes Store found a way so that we can download our purchases again. Even Microsoft lets us do that. I am working in Angola now but I am home in Bangkok next week and there is another solution to paying twice for the same product. ... yes, yes, yes... if I had the songs on my iPod I could transfer back. Some I do and some I don't... but what about when iTunes decided that I don't have permission to play the songs on this computer? ... even if I just downloaded with the computer. That has happened more than once too. Is there anything I am overlooking?

Step 1: Shout you Fracking B... at the iTunes screen 10 times.
Step 2: Through dumb luck I had some pieces of a folder called Previous iTune Libraries in my iTunes file and I was able to use Add Folder to Library and recover some of them. This was not my first rodeo.
Step 3: Go to my Songbird which has a feature of reading the iTunes Library and importing it into the Songbird Library. It also allows you to export the Songbird Library back into iTunes Library. It is a clumsy way of backing up a Library, but I have been doing this a while.
Step 4: All music files I have are in multiple backups, but parial files as mp3 collections which I get here and there and have ripped at one time or another. This is the messy part because Steps 3 and 4 give me lots of duplicates.
Step 5: Corrected an error in Preferences so that everything goes into once place now: my iTunes files on a 1.5 TB portable hard drive. I don't like this much because sometimes the portable HDs loose their ID even though I have fixed the letter (A MUST DO to keep your iTunes linked to your Library.)
Step 6: Be sure to consolidate your library after every download so that a copy goes into your iTunes Library and it also goes into your mp3 backup files.
Step 7: Delete or at least uncheck all the duplicates (My 30,000 goes down to 18,000 on the first pass and then lower as I consolidate broken albums due to mispellings, etc.
If this sounds like a lot of fustration and work and hours spent you are right. With my new 1.5 TB hard drive I can finally use the back up library to disk option. My library was always too big before with all my work related things I had to save too. Life intrudes on my iTune dominated life sometimes.
This is also caused when I buy songs on iTunes on an impluse but don't have a CD to immediately back up the purchase. With 5 portable HDs between 500 GB and 1.5 TB I don't really think I should have to carry around DVD-RWs too.
Good luck.

HT201269 one fine day, my i phone just hangup lost all contact detail. The screen only show a picture depicting cable connection to iTune. I have tried to restore iphone to factory setting but not working . May i know how to proceed to recover lost conta

one fine day yesterday, my i phone just hangup lost all contact detail. The screen only show a picture depicting cable connection to iTune. I have tried to restore iphone to factory setting but not working . May i know how to proceed to recover lost contacts.

I have taken it back to the Apple store genius bar, but they say they don't see anything wrong. Well unless you use it all day and experience the problems when they happen, you wont see anything wrong. But there are lots wrong with it. But this would be the same store as I purchased the phone. And they backed up my old Iphone 4, but were not able to get anything to load back onto my new phone. So, I lost pretty much everything. But over time, some of my contacts have started showing up, although i am still missing over 800 of them.

How Can I Recover lost music?

How Can I Recover lost music?

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer files/docs/pics/music/etc
Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to backup ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod: File>Transfer Purchases

I am trying to recover lost music from my I tunes library, is there any way i can sync from my I pod to my I tunes?, i am trying to recover lost music from my I tunes library, is there any way i can sync from my I pod to my I tunes?

I an trying to recover lost music that was in my I tunes library.
I now have more music on my I pod nano and want to sync this collection back to the I tunes library. Is this possiable ?
If not, can anyone give me a hint, other than the ones on the I tunes tutorial ( none of these have worked ) how I can get my music back

Yes it's possible to sync music back from a iPod back into iTunes that (I assume) wasn't purchased on the iTunes Store.
Apple allows iTunes Store purchases on devices to be reversed back into iTunes, just not cd rips and stuff like that. For that it's a one way trip to the device from iTunes.
I likely can't suggest such software here, but if you visit iLounge you can ask what is the latest software that works for your platform.
Really it only takes a mere few minutes to backup your iTunes Library and stick in a few cd/dvd's or a external drive. iTunes even has a menu command for it to make it oh so simple. Please use it and backup all your data.
Hard drives fail, computers burn up, thieves steal, stuff gets forgotten. Plan for something happening because it will.
Good Luck

Re-downloading lost purchases

Hi uh this is my first post thing but i needed the answer to this question...i have heard from others that there is a way you can re-download your lost purchases from itunes...i downloaded a movie on my itunes from another computer and was working perfectly but then i had to switch computers and i lost my downloads...music, tv-shows, and movies...i was able to recover half of my tv-shows but wasnt able to recover anything...i had purcased everything if there is any chance i could get those things back without having to re-purchase it...i have taken the advice from itunes on how to search all files and folders on the computer but was unsuccessful...if anyone knows a way i could get those things back without re-purchasing them please let me know...thanx

Restore it from a backup, use the Transfer Purchases command in iTunes if it's on an iPod, iPad, or iPhone, or click here and ask. Backing up your purchases is your responsibility.
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HOW DO i RECOVER LOST APPS

how do I recover lost apps for my phone?

Once purchased the apps are tied to your iTunes account. You can redownload them as many times as you want. Upgrade your phone? No problem. Just open the App Store app, sign in with your itunes account and go to the updates tab then hit Not in this iPhone to review all your past purchases and to reinstall them. Or you can search for apps you already purchased and just install them.
Newer devices will show you app you've already purchased while older devices will not. If on an older device you find your previous purchased app then hit buy, sign in with the iTunes account that the app was purchased on and go. A message will appear saying you've already bought this app then asking if you want to install it again for free.

How do i recover lost music i already paid for

how do i recover lost music i already paid for

Dustin Hunter wrote:
how do i recover lost music i already paid for
A: If Windows isn't working:
You need to boot the computer from a "recovery disk or USB" that has a operating system on it and a graphical user interface to transfer files from your boot drive to a external drive.
I suggest using the Easy USB Installer to install Ubuntu 10.10 onto a 2-4 GB USB key.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
Once you have it installed, consult this page for your BIOS boot key to hold to get into the BIOS.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/a/biosaccess_pc.htm
Plug the USB into the back (if possible) of the computer, connect the external drive and enter the BIOS, set the USB as first boot and SAVE.
Boot off the USB and "Try Ubuntu/Run from disk" DON'T INSTALL.
Once in, go under the menu Places > Computer and transfer your files to the external drive just like you would in Windows, drag and drop.
B: If the computer hardware isn't working, but the drive might still work:
You'll have to remove the power cord and manually extract the hard drive. This might result in some damage.
There is a powered IDE/SATA to USB adapter for sale online for $20 that you can take that internal hard drive and use it like a external drive to access your files from another Windows machine.
C: If your iTunes content is deleted...
It might be recoverable if it hasn't been overwritten yet by fresh data.
You need to use undelete software pre-installed before the iTunes content was deleted or while on a bootable cd/USB and a external drive to transfer the recovered files.
D: If the hard drive doesn't work and...
The data isn't worth spending $2000-$3000 in a ATTEMPT at recovery, then your finished
E: If you have a "iDevice" with any content
It can be synced back into iTunes, check at iLounge what third party software works reliably now and for your version.
Once you log into your iTunes account, you can snyc only iTunes purchased content back from a iDevice
F: If any of the above is too hard, or the data is of "critical importance"
Then seek professional computer or forensic level recovery services.
Hope this helps.

HT201272 How can I recover a purchased app on one itouch (which has since died) and put it on my new itouch device if I haven't syncronised my old device with my mac/itunes account before it died?

How can I recover a purchased app on one itouch (which has since died) and put it on my new itouch device if I haven't syncronised my old device with my mac/itunes account before it died?

It is easy to download items you have purchased from iTunes again; this article will walk you through it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
You want the "Apps on iOS" section.

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