Apple goes too far in iTunes 8

Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by ngvrnd on Thursday September 11, 2008 @03:50PM (#301687)

The iTunes 8 release FAILs on my macbook running the latest OS X. Crashes on startup. I'm not the only one; their support forums have lots of other folks complaining about start up crashes. They didn't shit on windows; they just screwed this upgrade up royally.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by ngvrnd on Thursday September 11, 2008 @05:32PM (#301794)

I should add, for anyone else who's seeing this, I found that if you hold down some combination of alt-command-ctrl (play around, it's not hard to find, and I can't remember exactly what it was) when you click on itunes to start it up, you'll get a "Starting iTunes in safe mode" dialog and that will get you past the crash I'm seeing. It seems to be related to processing cover art.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by dcurtis on Thursday September 11, 2008 @10:44PM (#302037)

Wow, the fact that iTunes has a "safe mode" is just ridiculous. Glad it helped you, though.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by LogicHoleFlaw on Friday September 12, 2008 @11:49AM (#302490)

Many apps have a "safe mode." The Firefox safe mode has saved my butt many times when I installed a misbehaving plugin....

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