[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone - retreiving paid for apps?

[Jules]

On 12/10/2009 09:53, Tim Chown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:42:59AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
>    
>> On 12 Oct 2009, at 09:35, Tim Chown wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to download apps from the iTunes app store that you
>>> have previously paid for on an account?   I have a new PC that I'd
>>> like
>>> to sync with.
>>>        
>> Yeah, in the "library" section of iTunes, when you've signed in,
>> there's an Application subsection, they're all there.
>>      
> Hi Steve,
>
> If you mean the library pane on the left, under Applications, they're not
> there.
>
> When I plugged my phone into the new PC, it said 'do you want to sync
> your apps from your phone to this PC' (or words to that effect), I said
> 'yes' and it then appeared to be doing so, but at the end said 'You
> haven't authorised this PC' at which point I then had no apps on the
> phone or the PC.   Joy.    Why didn't it tell me that before syncing and
> trashing what was on my phone...
>
> My PC is now added as one of my 5 authorised ones, but while I can see
> a list of paid for apps on my account history, getting them seems to
> be a challenge.
>
> Ho hum :)
>    
Have you tried purchasing them again? Once your PC is authorised, it 
should let you buy them again without charging you. That's effectively 
what an update is anyway. Try it with one of them and see what it says.

Jules

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