Q: How to undo an iBooks conversion and revert back to iTunes
Apple listens if enough people complain. If you hate the current implementation of iBooks, send Apple feedback here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks.html
I'm starting this thread as a central place to collect ways of either:
A. Preventing a conversion from iTunes to iBooks
B. Reverting back to iTunes after a conversion
Here's what I've seen in the community so far:
Kevin Edgecomb's solution for reverting back:
Re: Not impressed! No edit info, no library management!
Andy Epprecht's solution for reverting back, building on Kevin's:
Re: Not impressed! No edit info, no library management!
Any other solutions for prevention or reversion?
Posted on Oct 26, 2013 8:06 PM
And here's Andy Epprecht's refinement:
Oct 26, 2013 4:06 AM (in response to Kevin Edgecomb)
A small refinement or let's say alternative to Kevin's wonderful solution:
1.) Stopped the bookstoreagent process.
2.) Moved its file to elsewhere (Documents) so it wouldn't start up again on reboot.
Now assuming that you want and have organized all your media (music, video, book, pdf, etc.) in your 'iTunes Media' folder:
3) Opened up iTunes, made sure I had checked 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' in iTunes >Preferences>Advanced
4.) Went to iTunes>File>Library and checked 'Consolidate library' (and all my files (books/pdf's) magically reappeared (got copied back) in my iTunes Media folder (with all tags and so on like they used to be)
5.) Counted to ten.
6.) Restarted iTunes, saw all my stuff still there.
7.) Deleted iBooks for Mac (maybe wise to backup it to some external drive before), and the books in the new iBooks storage folder (that's in:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)
8.) Synced to my iPad, and was, yea, verily happified.
For whom it helps.
Message was edited by: Andy Epprecht
Posted on Nov 7, 2013 11:06 PM