Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Reverting Back to iTunes 6

Apple Recently released iTunes 7, being a avid iTunes user, i nearly
screamed in Happyness "Finally v7.0" unfourtunetly, iTunes 7 is a bad
bad bad rush job, with tremendous stabilty issues along with a million
other bugs, only after installing iTunes 7 did i realise this (until i
personally use something, i don't care about other people's
expierence) before installing version 7, i was more than happy with
version 6.0.5.20, If you're a Avid iTunes user and want to revert
back, simply Uninstalling and reinstalling previos version won't work,
Hunting on Google, i founded this VERY useful tutorial, which finally
letted me use v6 again.

Quote:
Step 1: Backup
Back up your iTunes 7 settings, so that you can keep them around in
case you want to go back.

Go into your My Documents folder, then your My Music folder. Copy the
iTunes folder inside there to somewhere else. That'll save your
settings.

Note: That's the default location, if you've moved things around it'll
be somewhere else. If you need help finding it, search for files
ending in .itl on your hard drive.

Step 2: Uninstall iTunes 7
Now, uninstall iTunes 7. Go to your Control Panel, Add/Remove
Programs, iTunes and hit Uninstall.

Reboot as it asks you to when it's done.

Step 3: Download iTunes 6.0.5
Download iTunes 6 from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...orwindows.html

Step 4: Install iTunes 6.0.5
Install iTunes 6 by running the installer.

Step 5: Try to run iTunes 6
You should get this error message:
The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by
a newer version of iTunes.

Step 6: Restore your old library
Go back into My Documents/My Music. Now go into the iTunes folder.
Rename your iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library.itl.old. Go into the
Previous iTunes Libraries folder (which would be in
MyDocuments\MyMusic\Previous iTunes Libraries). Take the newest file
(for me this was iTunes Library 2006-09-14.itl) and copy it back up to
the iTunes folder. Rename it iTunes Library.itl. Run iTunes 6 and you
should be all set, with your library restored.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than losing your library
entirely. Plus, since you've backed up your iTunes 7 library, when
Apple releases an iTunes 7.0.1 you should be able to reverse the
procedure above and use your most current library before upgrading to
iTunes 7.0.1.
Source: Blog.Dominik.Net

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