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iTunes shows app as "Downloaded" but is not

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latestmonkey

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So I have a bunch of apps that somehow have disappeared. (User error I'm sure.)

Anyway, for example, geodefense shows as "Downloaded" when i go to the page on the app store but it's neither on my phone more in my Mobile Applications folder.

Is there a way to force iTunes to redownload this?

thanks
 
Can you go into a little more depth? Apps you've had downloaded for awhile are just up and disappearing? And then when you download new apps, it says in the store that it's downloaded but it's not on your phone? Have you done any reboots on the phone or tried to do the "update all" option in the App Store?

Might help to plug it into your computer and let it all sync up as a backup in case you need to reformat or anything like that.
 
ok i guess i wasn't very clear.

i have ipa files in my Mobile Applications folder on my mac.

geodefense is installed on my iPhone. In my iTunes (on my mac) when i got to the app store and look at geodefense, it says "Downloaded"

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but geodefense's ipa file is not in my Mobile Applications folder. Where is it? Is there a way to "Reveal In Finder" like you can with iTunes? Is there a file I can look in to see where iTunes thinks it's stored?
 
latestmonkey said:
ok i guess i wasn't very clear.



i have ipa files in my Mobile Applications folder on my mac.



geodefense is installed on my iPhone. In my iTunes (on my mac) when i got to the app store and look at geodefense, it says "Downloaded"



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but geodefense's ipa file is not in my Mobile Applications folder. Where is it? Is there a way to "Reveal In Finder" like you can with iTunes? Is there a file I can look in to see where iTunes thinks it's stored?
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Just because the App Store says the app is downloaded, doesn't mean it was downloaded to your iTunes on your computer.
 
Winona Northdakota said:
Just because the App Store says the app is downloaded, doesn't mean it was downloaded to your iTunes on your computer.
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yes i realize that. that's my question: how do i force/trick iTunes to download it onto my computer.

For some reason it's not showing up in my Purchased Section / Not In My Library list either.
 
latestmonkey said:
yes i realize that. that's my question: how do i force/trick iTunes to download it onto my computer.

For some reason it's not showing up in my Purchased Section / Not In My Library list either.
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Plug your iOS device into iTunes. Right click on your device in the left side pane of iTunes and select Transfer Purchases.
 
Winona Northdakota said:
Plug your iOS device into iTunes. Right click on your device in the left side pane of iTunes and select Transfer Purchases.
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That didn't work. Because for some reason iTunes thinks the ipa file is already on my computer. Hence, no need to transfer the file.
 
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