iTunes 10.6 crashing after upgrade

i confirm iPhoto Upgrade fix nothing :-(

downgrade to 10.5.3.

One more thing : Apple waste my time One more time.

Thanks Apple, ...do you even have a QA department at all? Or is everyone at Apple so arrogant they just assume no mistakes can be made?

After upgrading to iTunes 10.6, everytime I plug in my iPhone 4, it crashes within 60-seconds!

This is ridiculous!!!

This is why you can NEVER update anything Apple until at least a month or two after its been out. This is also why I won't purchase a new iPad for at least a few months. Just ignorant decisions to NOT thoroughly test anything!

Hello everyone!

iTunes 10.6 really *****, I really regret updating it.

Apple should better find a solution fast, because it's ridiculous if you cannot even open music playlists on what's supposed to be high-tech !!!

since when does "S U C K S" get censored, an airplane e.g. ***** in air, whatever -.-

The option to revert iTunes to 10.5.3 was the only solution for me. Similar to others, I took everything off wi-fi, tried iTunes in safe mode etc, though the only success I have had is in 'theguypostingacomment's' solution above (thanks for sharing). Looking forward to 10.6.1. :|

I have excatly the same problem after updating to itunes 10.6. and 10.7.3. when pluging in my iphone4 or ipad2 both just crash immediately...even i try pause sync. itunes itself run fine when is not connected with any iphone or ipad..also tried to reinstall 10.5.3 but its wont let me uninstall itunes..

I had crashing problem with iTunes a lot of times with older version. But force to quit a few times and force to restart the computer will usually resolve the problem. But with the 10.6 update no matter how many times I restart my system it does not solve anything. Soon as I click the iTunes icon. It start jumps and never stop. In the system monitor, it says iTunes is not responding and my finder will stop responding soon after. All I got I a mouse icon going around and around. I cannot shutdown the computer because the finder is not responding. All I can do is force to shutdown by holding down the power bottom. :(

I can only conclude that Apple's software testing is completely incompetent, given this and other debacles. Many of us found this crash in the first 10 minutes of using 10.6. Do they even test this stuff before throwing it out there?

I tried someone's suggestion:

"The culprit seems to be the iPhoto library. If you move it out of the Pictures folder, say to the Desktop, you should find you can sync your devices with iTunes 10.6

If you don't use iPhoto that's fine. If you do, you'll have to move the library back again each time you use it, until Apple gets around to fixing the issue."

This did nothing for me. Still iTunes did not notice me plugging in iPad or iPhone, so no backups, no syncs.

So finally I decided to revert to 10.5.3. Having no back up of my own, I followed, step by step the instructions posted by theguypostingacomment a page back in this thread.

Worked perfectly. I now have both my devices newly backed up and synced, and everything else in iTunes seems to work perfectly.

This solution is totally recommended, and I formally propose theguypostingacomment as hero of the day.

Just spent the $16 and upgraded iPhoto 8.1.2 to latest 9.2.2 and let it update my iPhoto library.

Relaunched iTunes and tried to sync my iPad. iPhone 4 and iPad 2 have both now synced OK.

Will try Apple TV tomorrow.

This is so annoying ):

I was jammin' to some music, got the update notification. So figured I'd get it over with, only to find out it would prevent iTunes from opening all together. Just wonderful.

They better fix this soon.

Yes, the downgrade did work for me. The only addition is that if you are using Lion (10.7) then you need to have the Finder display hidden files so that you can see the ~/Library folder to delete the com.apple.iTunes plist files. You can do this using the following:

1. Open Utilities folder (in Applications).
2. Open a terminal window.
3. Copy and paste the following: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
4. Press return.
5. Now hold ‘option’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon.
6. Click on Relaunch to relaunch the Finder and make changes take effect.

I did the above and then restored the iTunes application from my Time Machine backup. Works like a song. Will now wait for a fix in iTunes 6.1

So is this just a way to get us to buy the new iphoto???