How to get iTunes to stop trying to download purchases I purchased a TV series season last year to watch on my Apple TV. My Macbook still tries to download all the episodes every time I launch iTunes.

I read online that you can delete everything in the itunes>media>downloads folder which I have, restarted, and still when I open iTunes a black download button pops up and when I click it, it tells me that I have all these pending downloads. When I click to see what they are, it automatically tries to download all the episodes.

I have purchased movies, but it never tries to make me download any of them. I watch movies and tv shows purchases generally on my Apple TV. And I like that I can view my iCloud purchases in iTunes, and decide to download something if I want to. But I do not like that it keeps trying to make me download all these episodes that I have no reason to want to store on my HD.

Is there a way to perminately tell iTunes to stop trying to download something?
Go to iTunes > Preferences > Store and then untick the 'Always check for available downloads'.

Tick the 'Shows iTunes in the Cloud purchases' too, if you purchased on your Apple TV.