Q: iTunes 10.6 crashing after upgrade

No, with Steve Jobs running things we had more than one OS update that caused some people to lose data on external hard drives, and many other issues that affected far more people than this one.  Things aren't worse, they aren't better, pretty much the same number of bugs that I've seen over the years.

jfeet28 wrote:

 

I hate to be the first one to say it: This crappy release would not have happened if Steve Jobs was still alive. Lots of post passing comments on Jobs whined that he could be a real ***tard with people who, in his mind, under performed. However, if there is no Walt Disney or Sam Walton peeking into offices and checking with customers he knows...the quality goes downhill pretty fast. If you're the boss, you gotta "walk the floor" and let everyone know you're paying attention.

 

Just MHO, YMMV.

I still don't understand how to re-download back to 10.5.3

I dont understand where you find the applications and all that.

Windows 32 - Bit if that matters.

I caved:  bought iPhoto'11 and problem is solved.   No more crashing of iTunes, can buy new apps/music on my iMac, can upload all my new photos and can hard sync the iPad and iPhone once again.

After reading the above post, I caved as well.

I, however, don't seem to be as fortunate. Every single problem persists, and I've just ****** away 15 dollars for nothing.

Wonderful.

Hi Alex

I know what you mean. But since you're using Windows go to this link. They have back versions all the way to the stone age as far as I can see.

http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php.

@ all the lovely people who posted replies to my enquiry before. (reminder: I did not experience crashes and so on, just slow ups across all apps when iTunes was running, inspite my 12 GB RAM and a generally super fast iMac 27", running 10.6.8). Thanks for all the help, but somehow iTunes 10.6 seems to have corrected itself without me doing anything!!!! Odd but true.

Then again it's perhaps worth mention that I am professional photographer and graphic designer so I never even install iPhoto, and since I don't own iPad, iPod or iPhone perhaps it would be less likely that I could have the crashing problems that some of the good people here have experienced.

Thanks all.

I got mine working (so far) this morning. I turned off my external drive containing my iTunes music/movie folders and then opened iTunes. As soon as it was up, I turned the external drive quickly back on so the exclamation points wouldn't start appearing. If some did, you just got to click and play and the point will go away.

One thing I should add which I don't know made a difference or not was I went to list view instead of cover view because that still sounds like the main culprit. Clicking on iTunes doesn't give you enough time to switch to list view since the spinning beach ball starts up right away and then it quits but what I did to buy time was double click an MP4 movie from my desktop. This opened iTunes automatically and while in was loading, gave me enough time to make the switch.

Same problems as everyone else - 10.7.3 with iTunes 10.6 and the app crashing every time I either sync an idevice like my iphone or ipad, or simply navigate to it in the left side menu bar.

I FINALLY just figured out how to get rid of this (dare I say it) "crashware" and devolve to the more stable 10.5.3 (3). Apologies if someone's already posted this but I didn't read through all 33 pages up to this point - so here's how I did it:

1) press command-i over iTunes 10.6 and alter permission for everyone to read & write

2) Send it to where it belongs (trash)

3) Navigate to your Music folder and open the iTunes subfolder.

4) Delete "iTunes Library.itl" - which should be the library for the faulty 10.6

5) Now replace it with the last saved itunes library that worked with 10.5.3 found in "Previous Itunes Libraries" (you'll have to remove the date in the label so that it just says "iTunes Library.itl").

6) Go to Apple's site and search for "iTunes 10.5.3 in the support pages. The first two hits will be entitled iTunes 10.6, one hit for Mac and the other for Windows.

7) Navigate to whichever applies and there will be a link to the last 10.5.3 (3) stable iTunes DMG - download it.

8) Install the 10.5.3 version and voila - back to one that works

Just got my iPad 3 from Apple so was not happy that I couldn't configure it, but all's well now...

10.6.1 fixes all issues with the older iPhoto and its libraries for me. iPad and iPhone both just synced without any issues.

Just ran through other issues people seemed to be having. Album artwork at all sizes seemed fine. TV shows played fine. Movies played fine too.

It was with great excitement that I read about this, but unfortunately, all of the problems I experienced with 10.6, exist with 10.6.1.  iTunes starts up some of the time, and syncs my iPod Classic none of the time.  What is happening?

So far seems to work.  Glad they fixed it.  Wished they would have made a statement acknowledging the problem earlier. 

I just downloaded the new 10.6.1 and everything seems OK now...

I too had the problems with 10.6 and reverted to 10.5.3 following the very helpful posts in this thread. So I was happy to see the 10.6.1. update and have downloaded that via Software Update.

Alas! I now get the following message:

"This version of iTunes has not been correctly localized for this language. Please run the English version."

Anyone got any suggestions? Other than reverting to 10.5.3....

I'm on a 27" iMac i7 running 10.6.8 with no other signs of problems. Been using Macs since 1985...

Andrew

andrewspackman:

Go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and download it from there and install.  I never use software update - too many people have had problems.  I always download the installers.  Also do the obvious things like reboot your machine etc.  I had no problems installing 10.6.1 and it fixed my crashes.