Delete a purchased file from ITunes Download Queue without downloading file

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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?

Best Answer

In iTunes Downloads folder (open Terminal, type: open ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Downloads/), delete list.plist file to remove the queued downloads. Then restart iTunes.

You may also want to delete other files in there too since they are certainly not needed.

(From my answer, https://discussions.apple.com/message/24479839#24479839)

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