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I downloaded a movie for rent to my desktop, but I really need to watch it on my laptop.  Can I transfer it with a wire of some sort or get my money back and re-rent it on the laptop if I haven't yet watched it?  I only have the usual connectors for iphone and ipod, but can't quite seem to determine what I need to put these two together if at all.

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The best way to transfer a movie from your desktop computer to your laptop computer would be to set up home sharing. In the iTunes menu bar, you’ll turn on home sharing via Advanced Menu bar pane. Next, choose an apple ID to log in under both computers. After both computers are registered to share content, go to the laptop and you’ll now see the other itunes library under the shared area in the left hand column of iTunes. Select that icon and you’ll be presented with a list of content from the desktop computer. Now simply drag the movies, movies or applications you’d like to transfer into the music folder on your laptop machine. It will take a while to move that much data (movies are typically a gig or two in size) but that should do it.

Thanks Scotty -- I just tried this and unfortunately, the icon for rented movies doesn't appear in the shared library.  Everything else but that is there -- is there some setting I need to adjust?
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Ah!  Rented movie.  Apple's restrictions via the RIAA currently don't allow for transferring of Rented movies.  You can only move rentals to AppleTV, iphone, iPods, and iPads.  Not computer to computer.  You could try moving the movie over to one of those devices then connecting that device to the next computer then selecting to transfer purchases from the iTunes  "file" menu drop down.  I haven't verified whether this will work but it's possible.  I doubt it though.  Most likely the movie is registered to the computer's ID and will only play on that device for a certain amount of time.  30 days to start, 24 hours after you've started.  They really need to extend that time if they expect more rentals.  

Here’s Apple’s support doc on the issue. How to rent a movie from the iTunes Store on your computer


Any ability to refund and rebuy that you know of?  Thanks so much!

You can try here:
Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Contact Us
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