I really dislike iTunes 11. How do I revert to an earlier version?

I'm not sure who at Apple is responsible for the design direction of interfaces but it does seem that they are violating one of the primary rules of GUI design. Apple has always leaned toward a very clean interface. Sort of the Bang and Olufsen of computer interfaces. My beef is that they have just gone overboard with it. The extra clicking to find functions that used to be obvious is just a pain in the keester, not to mention the wholesale removal of useful functions. It does nothing to improve the user experience and in the case of v11, it makes matters worse. Apple needs to go back to the drawing board or the digital tablet.

To make it look and function like the previous version, just View-> Side bar, then view by Songs (icon). Hope this helps, not quite the same, but close.

I finally found a tutorial that was thorough and easy to understand, and I successfully downgraded to 10.7

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3415032&pagtype=allchandate

Thanks to everyone here who helped me.

The 10.7 installer tells me it won't install because the newer verion is installed. And trying to delete 11 gives me an error that it can't be deleted because it is required by the system.

I downloaded Pacifist and see how to open packages, but do not understand how to use it to install 10,7.

Any tips? Will it get arounf the "newer version already installed" error?

Thanks.

To those having problems downloading 10.7, Mende1' link http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576 worked for me.

Thanks!

For those not using Time Machine, the five framework files are in System/Library/PrivateFrameworks.

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Can't search song on ipod. No album art work drag & drop. I feel like I just downgraded my iTunes 😕

This is really frustrating...

I've already UPGRADED from iTunes 11 to 10.7! Its like going from a tablet to a computer!

I tried uninstalling with appzapper and reinstalling with Pacifist but still get the 42408 error. This is probably because everytime I tried to repalce the files using Pacifist it said the files couldn't be modified. Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks... I hate iTunes 11 a.k.a. the biggest mistake Apple has made since firing Steve Jobs.

I missed the checkbox that gives you administrator privledges in Pacifist during my reinstall of iTunes 10.7. Very happy to have successfully downgraded.

hi guys

please DON'T forget to pass on your comments about iTunes11 to Apple themselves here :

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

that's the only way we might get back the features that matter to us, iTunes users

cheers

I could not have said it better. I also sucessfully completed my "upgrade" to 10.7 I've groused to Apple as nuno1959 recommended and hope that others take the time to do so as well.

Is there any other solution to iTunes telling you to restore iPods to factory defaults besides deleting the iTunesCDB file because I've heard that deleting it can mess up your iTunes library?

Thank you. Thank you. Thnk you. It work like a charm! 😀

I was begining to think it was just me. I hate the new iTunes and have been trying to get rid from the day it was installed! I'm not that computer savi so unless I can simply hit a button that says uninstall, download and reinstall an older version I'm snookered. Apple managed to lock my iPhone too with an update I shouldn't have gone for. Their support for this was frankley a waste of time and amounted to a premium rate call that was answered by a machine that told me I was in a 15 minute que, eventually they told me my phone was no longer supported and to pay them some more money for support. I think Apple has had enough of my money and to be honest I'm thinking of cutting my losses and just finding another platform.