Q: iTunesHelper dissapear after LION and iTunes 10.4 update

Open the iTunes program package (in /applications) by control clicking and selecting contents. Find ituneshelper in /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS. Drag the ituneshelper program into login items. Delete the defective program reference in login items.

Jan B P

This can also be fixed by downloading and installing iTunes again from http://www.apple.com/itunes.

I too noticed that the update broke my iTunesHelper Login Item.  Both of the solutions given would fix this.  I deleted and readded the helper to my LoginItems as it only took about 20 seconds and works great.

worked out great! Thanks for the help!

JanBP wrote:

 

Open the iTunes program package (in /applications) by control clicking and selecting contents. Find ituneshelper in /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS. Drag the ituneshelper program into login items. Delete the defective program reference in login items.

 

Jan B P

I haven't updated to Lion yet (I have 10.6.8) but I got this problem when I updated iTunes to 10.4. However, I applied your fix and it worked. Thanks JanBP!

Message was edited by: BrianInCalifornia Removed redundancy in text

Is the iTunes Helper still needed?

Suppose not, unless you want auto opening and synchronization when you connect your phone

OK, thank you JanBP!

I did a reinstall of iTunes but the iTunes Helper app can be more simply be activated under Lion by going to first page (Summary) unchecking Open iTunes… hit Apply then checking Open iTunes… hitting Apply when a Dialog comes up to make certain that's what you want. I think the Helper is then set up in the Login Items of Accounts. Yes the defunct older app has to be manually killed from that list.

Very helpful, thanks Suryaprabha

worked perfectly for me as well...thanks!

Thank you very much, Jan B!!!

That did the trick, thanks Suryaprabha.