Make sure that the account that was the first account on the old phone (that you purchased the apps with) is the same one when you setup the new phone.

 

If you have 2.01 on the new Droid it might be (though big coincidence) that the apps you bought don't support 2.01. I "lost" two apps I bought that way...neither would appear on Marketplace after I upgraded, and were removed from my device (no icon/evidence of the apps).

So that's possible for maybe one or two of the apps you're missing, but unlikely to explain all of them...more likely you need to ensure you logged into the Droid using the same primary gmail account, as noted above.

I've exchanged my Droid three times and never had any apps that I'd purchased disappear from my download list...

 

If you goto the market place they should reflect a paid status. Just manually redownload.

 

A possible solution is to go through your email and forward the reciepts to the proper developers & get them to email you the apk's so you manually install.

Keep us informed of any results?

Thanks!

 

Yup...then 2.01 is not the culprit.

 

This is my second replacement droid and both times, none of my free nor paid apps showed up in marketplace. I was able to redownload rerware's mybackup from it's website the first time. So I carefully backed everything up before the second replacement phone. Sure enough, the marketplace again shows I have NO Downloads. No problem, I was smart this time and used mybackup. Problem is, mybackup won't accept the registration code as I have it registered on "too many devices"!!??

Setting up a replacement droid is a giant hassle no matter how you slice it. I purchased Pure Messenger twice already. Three times seems a bit much for this buggy but useful program. So I contacted the developer and he said: too bad. Not my problem. Contact Google. Seems a little greedy to me... I don't need to face that hassle on my next replacement device.

What's going on with the disappearing downloads on the google marketplace? (Yes, I am using the same account on each phone...)

 

Mine has always showed up, but I use Titanium Backup anyway just to be safe. Never had a missing app ever (paid or free).

 

Did the dev really say "to bad not my problem" ? Now that this message will be seen by a zillion Android fans he may regret that. Thats not how you treat your customers.