Tag: Installation problem with January 2014 iTunes update

iTunes fails to work after 11.1.4 update

Just a warning folks, iTunes updates are back at it again, failing and corrupting your current iTunes setup. Your music should be fine as it’s saved in a music directory, but hey….are you backing up your music just in case? Never know. I’ve had my iPhone blown away from a bad update and thank goodness, a restore was done recently.

Updates, need ’em, but how bad? I’m willing to risk it sometimes.

So tonight I am doing the famous bad update to see what happens. So far, so good. Half way there. And after it was done, all set. iTunes still works. But let’s look at what programs I don’t have, that some of my clients did have on their system that may have caused the update to crash. (*I haven’t rebooted my computer yet either, so we will see if that happens tomorrow am!)

From what I have seen, the Apple Mobile Device services were the partial cause. You can try to start the services again and it might work, but I had to do a full clean up and reinstall on the computer I fixed last.

What is the repair you ask? Basically remove all Apple products from your computer, run a cleaner to remove all registry items associated, reboot and then install from scratch. Be sure to back up your music before hand.

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