Hi Sarah, The purchased playlist in iTunes is just a kind of smart playlist for all your iTunes items, and I have had the experience you describe of having this playlist disappear once before. Try making a new smart playlist (Command-Option-N), navigate to the "rules section" and interact, then VO-Space on the pop up button and quickly press "p u" to change it from "Artist" to "Purchased". Your rule should now read "Purchased is true". Then save it under some name like "New Purchased". If you want this to look like your "Purchased" playlist, and have the items appear in order of date of purchase, use Command-J to bring up the View menu options and check the box for "Purchase Date", then navigate to the "Purchase Date" column and sort with VO-Shift-Backslash to get these in the desired order -- probably having to sort twice to get earliest purchases listed first.
I think that when my purchased playlist disappeared, it just turned up empty. You can actually copy and paste tracks into that playlist. So, I think that if you want to return that playlist to its old behavior, you can copy the items the items from your newly created smart playlist and paste them into the old, now blank, "Purchased" playlist that shows up in the source list below the iTunes Store. I don't think the "Purchased" playlist displays the purchase date, so if you want the match to be exact, you can press Command-J and uncheck the "Purchase Date" in the viewing options for your "New Purchased" playlist after sorting on purchase date, and before you select all to copy entries to the old "Purchased" playlist. This is just from memory, but I think that all new purchases will just get appended to the end of the "Purchased" playlist. Of course, this assumes that all your purchases are still in your iTunes library. If you have an old backup, you can just copy the old "Purchased" playlist contents over, or you can use the smart playlist rules to test whether there are any entries in your old "Purchased" playlist that aren't in your "New Purchased" playlist, and add them. I'm not sure why the "Purchased" playlist disappears in the first place, but it doesn't happen very often. Think of it as iTunes having some kind of fit or seizure *grin*. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello to all. my purchased playlist in iTunes has gone missing. the thing > with the tabs and you can choose not in library or in library and download > all purchases/ I can't find out how to get it back. > > Thanks. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
