Comments on: All your third party applications broken after iTunes 8.1? Me too. Here’s the fix.

By: ib0211

ib0211 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:38:11 +0000

Upgraded to 8.1 yesterday and had problems too. I don’t have any 3rd party apps, but it basically blatted my iPod Touch (1st Gen).

After upgrading iTunes and connecting my Touch, it sent my Touch into recovery mode automatically – after which it did a restore and then upgrade of the firmware, then a restore from backup… And my iPod was blank!

Also all settings within iTunes had been scrapped (previous upgrades haven’t done this).

Oh well… Annoying but recoverable from…

By: Bill_F

Bill_F — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:13:42 +0000

HP not UP – iPhone autocorrection!

By: Bill_F

Bill_F — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:11:41 +0000

Steve, yes I know you use a mac :-). If an application plays up on a mac eg not starting, doesn’t print or interacts in a funny way the first thing you should do is repair permissions. It’s a good idea to do this before and after doing a major install like iLife, large Mac OSX update. UP printer driver updates are particularly bad at having wrong permissions and seem to screw up the system. (I’m a long time mac user)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:27:34 +0000

No – why on earth would this be needed? Well, ok, in hindsight I can see why this would be relevant, but this is on a Mac – such manual hackery should definitely not be needed!!

By: Bill F

Bill F — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:50 +0000

He’s unlucky. There you are: a poll of 2 – one with problems and one without!

Steve did you repair permissions in disk utility after you installed iTunes 8.1?

By: Iain 117

Iain 117 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:19:12 +0000

I haven’t updated my iTunes to 8.1 yet but this article makes me weary of doing so, is it affecting 100% of the users Steve or is it the select unlucky few?