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Figure 38: You can access almost all your past iTunes purchases at any
time. They're split into recent purchases, all purchases, and genres.
Where's My Stuff?
Media licensing is… complicated , to put it mildly. I won't bore you with the details, but
due to various legal agreements, your past purchases may not be available in iTunes
in the Cloud. Even worse, there's always the possibility that your past purchases could
be yanked from iTunes in the Cloud (for an example, see the TidBITS article Disney
Temporarily Yanks Purchased iTunes Movies ) . If you value your iTunes purchases, al-
ways keep a local backup.
However, if a purchased item appears to be missing, there is a chance that it has just
been hidden somehow. In iTunes on your computer, choose Store > View Account. In
the “iTunes in the Cloud” section, look for Hidden Purchases and click Manage. Click
the appropriate content button at the top (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, or Books)
and see if your purchase is listed there. If it is, click the Unhide button, and it should
appear on all of your devices.
Home Sharing Video
iTunes in the Cloud is convenient, but if you already have your movies and shows stashed in
iTunes locally on your computer, it's a waste of bandwidth to stream them from Apple. For-
tunately,youcanaccessvideosfromyouriTuneslibrariesoveryourhomenetworkthanksto
HomeSharing.TolearnhowtoenableHomeSharing,see ContentfromYouriTunesLibrary ,
earlier.
ToaccessyouriTunesmoviesfromtheAppleTV,opentheComputersappinthemainmenu.
If you see an error message, be sure that the computer is on, and has iTunes open.