Reinstalling ITunes Advice / Experience ?

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jarcher

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Reinstalling ITunes Advice / Experience ?
« on: 28 Nov 2013, 12:47 pm »
I'm thinking of reinstalling ITunes, among other reasons because I get from time a "sync services" error, and other times it seems to have difficulty logging in with my apple id despite entering in the correct password repeatedly. At one point I also deleted some file in the iTunes folder on the suggestion of some Internet "genius".

My question : has anyone out there done this - ie deleted and reinstalled the iTunes application on a Mac, and if so what were the results / pitfalls?  Do you have to reimport / reindex your whole library?  At close to 30k songs and almost one terabyte for me I imagine this would take a long time.

If I've already updated over time to the most recent versions of iTunes, is this in effect a reinstall, or am I still carrying over the "bugs" of before?  Upgrading / updating ITunes to the most recent version from the version installed doesn't seem to have resolved the problems I've been experiencing.

Thanks for any help / relating personal experience. I'm reluctant to screw up my iTunes further as for the most part the problems / crashes are not too frequent, but if reinstalling can resolve these and be done relatively easy / painlessly, I will.


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Re: Reinstalling ITunes Advice / Experience ?
« Reply #1 on: 1 Dec 2013, 01:24 am »
Nobody out there has reinstalled iTunes - particularly on a Mac...... :(