This is related to an earlier question, but the advice there doesn't work for me. My disk space is full. Whenever I open iTunes, it tries to download some purchases that I don't want anymore (old Lost episodes) that I haven't wanted for years. All that I want to do is cancel these downloads. Deleting them in itunes doesn't work.
The recommended advice on an earlier question is to finish downloading them, then delete them, but I can't do this for diskspace reasons (there are about seventeen episodes, so it's not practical for me to sit there and slowly deleted enough diskjunk to download an episode at a time, then delete the episode - and even if it were, it seems rude to hog this much bandwidth.) Any other solution? I had a download (a Lost episode in fact) that wouldn't stop downloading. Even though it was already in my library, it would download every time I checked for purchases and then error out at the end of the download.
How to Fix iTunes 12’s Biggest Annoyances. Question: Does anyone know if you can make the iTunes video playback control panel bigger? The reason I ask is that the panel is so small that moving forward/backward is very imprecise. I got rid of my iPhone and switched to Android because the iPhone was the only thing forcing me to keep up. How to cancel a download in iTunes. IPod, or iPad We’re talking about iTunes on the PC/Mac. LGM says: August 5, 2011 at 12:48 pm Now I can say that it works! That’s great. Last I heard, the only way to permanently remove stuff from your iTunes download queue is to go through support. I believe there should be an option to.
I don't remember everything I tried, but a tried a LOT of things to get it to stop. The only thing that eventually worked for me was contacting iTunes Support: They had the item removed from my queue within a couple hours. It will probably expedite things if you give them the exact episode names and numbers as they appear in the iTunes Store.
By Deleting songs from iTunes might seem counterproductive when you’re trying to build your iTunes library, but sometimes you’ll find a good reason to delete a song or two. For example, you may want to delete. Versions of songs: You might have ripped a CD twice — say, once in AIFF format to burn the songs onto another CD and once in AAC format for your library and iPod. You can delete the AIFF versions in your library after burning your CD. Songs from playlists: You can delete songs from playlists yet keep the songs in your library. When you delete a song from a playlist, the song is simply deleted from the list — not from the library.
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You can delete entire playlists, as well, without harming the songs in the library. Any podcast, video, audio book, or movie that you’ve listened to or watched and no longer want to keep: You can select any content item and remove it from your iTunes library. You then have a choice of keeping the item’s file on your hard drive in the same folder, or transferring it to the Trash (on a Mac) or Recycle Bin (on a Windows PC) to delete it entirely. Actually deleting something from your iTunes library is a snap.
Select the media type. You can select Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, Audiobooks, Applications, Ringtones, or Radio.
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Select the item. Or you can select an artist for the artist’s entire oeuvre, or an album to select the entire album. Press Delete/Backspace (or choose Edit→Delete) to delete. You can select a single TV show episode and then choose Edit→Delete All to delete all episodes. Also, you can select a single episode of a podcast and then choose Edit→Delete All to delete all episodes but keep the podcast itself so that you are still subscribed to the podcast.