iTunes -- DON'T upgrade!!!
Dec. 7th, 2012 05:41 pm.
Yesterday... mm, Wednesday afternoon, I think... I opened iTunes and it invited me to upgrade. I hesitated, but then figured, why not? With only one week of experience, it's not like I was invested iTunes-as-it-was. So I clicked the button and started the upgrade.
Bad move. Bad, bad move. The look is so totally different, and it's hard to find things. But, I can handle that. What's far worse, in my view, is that the "Display Duplicates" option is no longer available. I used that a lot; when I had loaded all the songs of a particular artist, I displayed duplicates, listened to each one, then deleted the less-liked version. I looked at every drop-down on the menu bar, and every sub-menu -- several times. It's not there!
And at that, I have it easy.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
coffeeandink and her friends are having all kinds of trouble finding their iPod music, moving it around, synching things up; as coffeeandink said in comments, " Apple has made some remarkably bad UI decisions."
So, I've uninstalled iTunes 11, run CCleaner (recommended on the net), then had to restore all my URLs and sign back into all my sites, and am now installing iTunes 10.7. (I assume that's the one I had, since I got iTunes so recently.) We'll see how it goes.
But, if you have iTunes, and you like its features as they are -- save yourself a lot of fuss and hassle, and DON'T UPGRADE!!!
ETA: Several pages that promised me iTunes 10.7 wouldn't load on my computer. I was successful with the Old Apps Page. The directions for saving your music to have access to it may make sense to you; they didn't to me. BUT you can copy/paste (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) all your music into a folder on your desktop. After your downgrade, iTunes will load from that folder, if you tell it to.
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Yesterday... mm, Wednesday afternoon, I think... I opened iTunes and it invited me to upgrade. I hesitated, but then figured, why not? With only one week of experience, it's not like I was invested iTunes-as-it-was. So I clicked the button and started the upgrade.
Bad move. Bad, bad move. The look is so totally different, and it's hard to find things. But, I can handle that. What's far worse, in my view, is that the "Display Duplicates" option is no longer available. I used that a lot; when I had loaded all the songs of a particular artist, I displayed duplicates, listened to each one, then deleted the less-liked version. I looked at every drop-down on the menu bar, and every sub-menu -- several times. It's not there!
And at that, I have it easy.
coffeeandink and her friends are having all kinds of trouble finding their iPod music, moving it around, synching things up; as coffeeandink said in comments, " Apple has made some remarkably bad UI decisions." So, I've uninstalled iTunes 11, run CCleaner (recommended on the net), then had to restore all my URLs and sign back into all my sites, and am now installing iTunes 10.7. (I assume that's the one I had, since I got iTunes so recently.) We'll see how it goes.
But, if you have iTunes, and you like its features as they are -- save yourself a lot of fuss and hassle, and DON'T UPGRADE!!!
ETA: Several pages that promised me iTunes 10.7 wouldn't load on my computer. I was successful with the Old Apps Page. The directions for saving your music to have access to it may make sense to you; they didn't to me. BUT you can copy/paste (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) all your music into a folder on your desktop. After your downgrade, iTunes will load from that folder, if you tell it to.
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