Some time ago when Apple was offering free samples of HD television shows, I downloaded an episode of Heroes and 30 Rock to try it out on my AppleTV units, etc., but I have zero interest in storing television episodes on my hard drive for incomplete seasons on shows I don't even watch. So, I deleted both of these episodes and freed up some space on my hard drive. Now, several MONTHS later, I updated my iPod Touch to OS 3.0 and coincidentally or not, I find both of those TV shows in my iTunes download queue. They are not small files. I deleted them from the queue list. I then updated my apps after installing 3.0, which it put in my download queue and there I find it trying to download over 1GB of TV shows once again...(sigh). Delete. Basically, they keep coming back. I COULD let them download again and then delete them, but they've been downloaded once before and came back again months later (as if the iTunes store compared my library to my purchased list and noticed I was missing some items and decided to restore them regardless of whether I "want" them or not).
Basically, this is incredibly annoying. I found a similar incident on MacWorld's site, but the person had to contact Apple support and over several days they eventually had to delete it from the queue on their end (nothing the user could do). Is this typical for iTunes? Too bad if you delete "purchased" content (even if it was a free sample). You have to keep it forever or Apple will constantly keep downloading Gigabytes of information and sticking it back on your hard drive?
Basically, this is incredibly annoying. I found a similar incident on MacWorld's site, but the person had to contact Apple support and over several days they eventually had to delete it from the queue on their end (nothing the user could do). Is this typical for iTunes? Too bad if you delete "purchased" content (even if it was a free sample). You have to keep it forever or Apple will constantly keep downloading Gigabytes of information and sticking it back on your hard drive?