Yosemite made my iTunes quit loading

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Yosemite made my iTunes quit loading

I'm on a mid 2011 model Mac Mini and upgraded from "Mavericks" to "Yosemite" today. However, iTunes will not load unless you go find the actual package contents and run the terminal process. Here's the only way I've found to make it run...

Once you close it though... it quits opening. You'll HAVE to open it via a shortcut which can be made by dragging the file shown above to your desktop. It'll start up Terminal and run as iTunes is open.

So far, this is THE ONLY WAY to make iTunes work on a system that is having this problem. IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED RIGHT NOW, APPLE!

P.S. I have upgraded my Macbook Pro with Retina (late 2013 model) and it had NO PROBLEM like this or any problems at all. I think this is isolated to older Macs.

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 1:22 AM

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Oct 17, 2014 1:36 AM in response to Justin Sluss

Im having the same problem. Many thanks for this though. It will do until Apple come up with a fix.

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Oct 17, 2014 1:38 AM in response to jimjamjones

You're welcome. I actually saw someone else suggest it in another thread with someone having the exact same issue. I figured I'd start a better worded one with at least a FIX in the original post...

I will update if I find out any other ways to force it to open or such.

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Oct 17, 2014 1:45 AM in response to jimjamjones

Here are the steps to do the quick fix.

1) Open Finder
2) Under "Devices" choose your Mac and then select "Macintosh HD"
3) Select the "Applications" folder.
4) Find iTunes then RIGHT CLICK and choose "Show Package Contents"
5) Once you're here: navigate through "Contents" and then to "MacOS" folders.
6) FINALLY: Up top click on the iTunes file and try to open it normally. If it doesn't budge try RIGHT CLICK and "Open"

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Justin Sluss Author

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Oct 19, 2014 12:07 AM in response to Justin Sluss

UPDATE:

I've RE-INSTALLED "Yosemite" and... [drumroll please] ...

IT STILL WILL NOT LOAD iTUNES!! 😮

My method instructed above is the only way I can get iTunes to load on this Mac OS X 10.10 Mac Mini (mid 2011) machine.

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Oct 19, 2014 1:08 AM in response to Justin Sluss

same here on my mid 2011 iMac

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Oct 19, 2014 2:29 AM in response to Justin Sluss

Exactly same problem on a MacBook Pro. Was on to Apple Support three times yesterday and they were completely flummoxed by the fault - but it seems a few people have it.

Come on Apple. Get a fix for this.

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Oct 19, 2014 9:28 AM in response to Justin Sluss

Same issue for me on MacBook Pro 2011. Thanks for the tip.

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Oct 19, 2014 9:41 AM in response to Justin Sluss

There was a solution posted in another thread.

1) Remove iTunes. Instructions can be found here: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/uninstall-itunes/

2) Reinstall iTunes. It can be downloaded here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

If that doesn't work, I fixed the problem on my system (before seeing the above instructions) by installing Yosemite on an external drive, then booting from the external drive and copying the iTunes app from the new install back over to the main system. This will be version 12 so you will need to go through the normal update process again to get the latest version.

-kpluck

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Justin Sluss Author

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Oct 19, 2014 2:35 PM in response to kaplucker

It worked! Thanks so much!!

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Oct 19, 2014 3:02 PM in response to Justin Sluss

You dont reinstall Yosemite. First you delete your current Itunes application, then you download it from the App Store.

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macjayce

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Oct 19, 2014 3:47 PM in response to Justin Sluss

Macbook Pro 2011 same problem for me. The delete and install work fine for me. Thanks guys.

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Oct 19, 2014 9:51 PM in response to kaplucker

Thanks for the tip!! this worked for me too.

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Oct 19, 2014 10:02 PM in response to Justin Sluss

Yes, I'm in the same predicament. Macbook Pro 2011... haven't tried this fix yet but crossing my fingers. Looking around this issue seem well documented in the beta and yet they released it?? 😕

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Oct 19, 2014 10:51 PM in response to Justin Sluss

For some reason I can't change the permissions for iTunes so I can't delete and reinstall it. Does anyone else have any ideas?

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Oct 19, 2014 10:53 PM in response to Wundaground

have you clicked on the padlock?

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