Apple Itunes deletes HD downloads
APPLE FORUMS are buzzing with complaints about disappearing files from the Cupertino company's newly-launched High Definition (HD) service through Itunes.
The software automatically downloads two versions of any movies or TV episodes, the HD version to watch on your big screen telly or computer monitor, and a Standard Definition (SD) version which will sit happily on your Ipod or Iphone.
The problem is that Itunes seems to have had a bit of a wobbly and, instead of following normal Apple file-naming conventions, whereby duplicate files are renamed with sequential numbers (file.m4p – file-2.m4p – file-3.m4p, etc.) the two files are conflicting and overwriting each other.
So what happens is, you wait a couple of hours for your HD file to download... all well and good. Then the SD file, which takes a few minutes, automatically kicks in and kills the bigger file. bah!
Some users are reporting that allowing 'simultaneous downloads' through Itunes fixes the problem.
Over to you Apple... µ
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If Apple -like the good communist they are- doesn't shut down the forum and apply full censorship as they love to do when users find any "problem" with their products then I'll be quite amazed.
Now if some well-intending hacker would just delete Apple Itunes. And while at it, Apple and Stevie Joblobies as well.

Save the Universe! Boycott Apple! (grins)

Oh, and Microsoft too! Let's not forget our favorite bad boy.
APPLE there commercial punch line should be

We Make Innovation Move Forward, Because We Like To Stuff Up Our Own Software So You Don't Have To!
"Some users are reporting that allowing 'simultaneous downloads' through Itunes fixes the problem."
how exactly is that considered a fix?
maybe in bizzaro
Well this problem didn't happen for me. It shouldn't happen for anyone else either. You seem the smaller file downloads FIRST because, well, it's smaller. You get that one first and then the HD file. Both files downloaded and worked for me. I've only tried the free files Apple was giving away so far.
Well even though I'm not an apple users it seems obvious, if you have 2 files downloading at once the OS is forced to make 2 names since the one file is in use and locked and it can't use that name then, whereas if it's sequential the filehandle has been released and it can be overwritten.