Overview of successive upgrades

Can anyone offer a succinct overview of the various iTunes upgrades? It is hard to figure out which ones are worthwhile.

There's an iTunes version history at this link you could read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes/changelog

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Has anyone successfully upgraded a Lenovo 3000 N100 to Windows 7?

I have a 3000 N100 with 2 GB of memory on Vista. Do I need special drivers or firmware changes to successfully upgrade to Windows 7 (32 bit)? I know I can't increase the memory and am getting a lot of paging with Vista. Thanks for the help.

You can see my 11/18/2009 post.
The upgrade to windows 7 has been easy on both the Lenovo N100 Notebook (exception - soundMax audio drivers) an an E-Machine Desktop.
I still have no Notebook DVD audio - seems that there are no SoundMax Win 7 drivers and the Vista compatible option doesn't work.
The Desktop has Realtek and Win 7 drivers are available so every thing now works OK.
We did lose functionality for a 1996 game for which no patch will be made - it wants to control the graphics display and apparently can't use the Win 7 10yrs newer drivers.
Our HP AIO Printer worked with the Win 7 included Drivers but I needed to download the Win 7 files to have the HP programs (Update, Scan, Fax, etc.,).
The Desktop was done with the Upgrade option, the Notebook with the Custom one.

Touchsmart 600-1120 successfully upgraded to Windows 8 Pro

I just wanted to report my Touchsmart 600-1120 (BK139AA) was successfully upgraded from Win7 64 bit to Windows 8 Pro 64 bit, and I haven't run into any issues. Here are the steps I went though.
1. Made disk image backup using Win7 Backup and Restore.
2. Ran the Windows 8 advisor tool to have a record the computer passes minimum requirements and I had a list of what apps will no longer work. I did go ahead and removed all of them. I never did use those apps much anyways.
3. Ordered Windows 8 Pro upgrade DVD from Amazon. I potentially had multiple computers to upgrade, and wanted the DVD. Requested the free product key to unlock the Media Center add-on pack and received it in two days via email.
4. Made another disk image backup using Win7 Backup and Restore in the event a Win7 restore is needed.
5. Ready to upgrade. Inserted the 64 bit DVD, nothing happened. Manually launched Startup.exe on the DVD.
6. Selected option to upgrade Win7, keeping all docs and preferences and let it go. Took an hour or so, I didn't keep track. Rebooted a couple of times and responded to any prompts for info. When I received the logon screen for the first time, I ejected the upgrade DVD.
7. When I logged in for the first time, I had no issues with the touch driver. The touch was very reponsive. Played around for a while exploring a bit. It's actually lots of fun. I've never been exposed to an ipad or tablet, so this was the first time I've experienced a "tabletized" interface for lack of a better term.
8. Followed the instructions in the email to install and unlock the Media Center pack. It took a while to add the software. My only concern was if the AVerMedia TV card (A327) would work. After the install there was the normal Media Center icon shown on the app tiles. Launched it and had go through the process of setting up the TV tuner. Once it found the tuner card (yea!) I told it to use the existing preferences for channels and such and it worked like it did in Win7.
Launched Windows Update and it found a few things to update. I played around for a couple of hours to get familiar with the new interface, and how to display the old Win 7 desktop. It took me a while to figure out how to make an image backup. I had another computer handy with internet access and it was quicker to google to find answers to my questions. One of which is the option to use the familiar Win 7 backup and restore, so I made a new disk image with the new OS and stored it away.
I have this computer on the kitchen counter and use it mainly for TV watching while cooking and occasional recipe lookups. In the Windows store, there are some free recipe apps, like allrecipes.com. I installed a bunch of the free recipe and news apps. I don't know if I'd use the touch screen on a regular basis, although it is nice to have, it leaves lots of fingerprints, particuarily in a kitchen environment.
I'm very relieved I didn't run into hoops I had to jump thorough considering reading about Win8 upgrade issues others have experienced.

Hello, I was also able to go to Windows 8Pro, but have been unsuccessful trying to go to 8.1 or to 10, great PC feel I will need to restore it back to Windows 7. Have you been able to at least get it up to Windows 8.1? Thanks

I have two Ipad2's. I successfully upgrade one to IOS6 and now the 2nd one has gotten to the point of signing in with my Apple Id and it keeps saying "Problem connecting to the server". What now?

I have two Ipad 2's. They were both IOS4. I successfully upgraded one to IOS6. When I did the second one, when I got to the end of the process where it asks for your AppleID it kept saying there was a problem with the server. Same desktop, same AppleId for both Ipads, but it wouldn't let me sign in. What can I do to fix this?

hi i had the same problem today when i updated my itunes to latest version. however, i have just found my songs in the 'itunes media' folder. this was accessed through 'my music' then keep clicking through until you find itunes media and all my library songs were in there and i then just added these files to my library and all were restored however, i have lost all my playlists but at least my 700 songs are back. very dissapointed with apple that they have let this happen with their latest update, the previous version was miles better than this one . hope you find them. stevo

Can I remove safely Photoshop CS5 after a successful upgrade to Photoshop CS6?

Can I remove safely Photoshop CS5 after a successful upgrade to Photoshop CS6? What is best and safest way to do this?

If you are using a Windows OS
Open CS5 and go Help > Deactivate.
Then Control Panel > Programs and features > select CS5 and uninstall.
Or just leave it there. Make sure you have sorted any third party plugins from CS5, although the uninstall should leave them intact.

Help: successfully upgraded to 10.5, logged in and a kernel panic repeats

After successful upgrade to Leopard on my new iMac, I upgraded the iBook today. Successfully, I followed the prompts from Tiger 10.4.11, took about 1hr 10min. My iBook rebooted and then after about 20 rounds of spinning sticks, the login screen appeared. I logged in and spinning beach ball came up. A few moments later, the smoky window with white text and a power button behind it showed up telling me that iBook needs to be restarted. So I did, but that window is coming up every time I restart it and log in. Now what? From what I read this is a kernel panic and it happens after I log into the new leopard account. Does anyone know how to fix this? In many, many years of owning Macs, this is the first one of these where it panics. The good thing is, all my data is time machined on iMac, but still upgrading to Leopard was supposed to be a smooth experience, as shown in the Leopard video.

After successful upgrade to Leopard on my new iMac, I upgraded the iBook today. Successfully, I followed the prompts from Tiger 10.4.11, took about 1hr 10min. My iBook rebooted and then after about 20 rounds of spinning sticks, the login screen appeared. I logged in and spinning beach ball came up. A few moments later, the smoky window with white text and a power button behind it showed up telling me that iBook needs to be restarted. So I did, but that window is coming up every time I restart it and log in. Now what? From what I read this is a kernel panic and it happens after I log into the new leopard account. Does anyone know how to fix this? In many, many years of owning Macs, this is the first one of these where it panics. The good thing is, all my data is time machined on iMac, but still upgrading to Leopard was supposed to be a smooth experience, as shown in the Leopard video.

I have 2 iMac 24". Just successfully upgraded to OSX-Yosemite on one. The other has gotten stuck at startup screen. White screen w apple

I have 2 iMac 24". Just successfully upgraded to OSX-Yosemite on one. The other iMac has gotten stuck at the startup screen. On power-down then powerup, I get a White screen w apple logo.....then the loading bar is on and goes about 1/5 of the way.....then switched to plain white screen......where it has been for 8-10 hours unchanged.....what can I do? HELP!

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How I successfully upgraded from iPhoto '09 to iPhoto '11 - Glitch Free.

I've been eagerly reading the forums PRIOR to installing iPhoto '11 and I'm about to dive in. I have an iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 6GB RAM running Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.4.
I'm currently running iPhoto '09 (version 8.1.2) with 1403 events, 41,133 photos, 24 Faces and 29 Places. I have dozens of Albums and Smart Albums, Mobile Me Galleries, as well as 5 Keepsakes-3 cards and 2 books. The library itself is 185 GB in size and resides in an Admin User account in /Users/User/Pictures
Here is what I've done PRIOR to installing iPhoto '11
_*Fixed Permissions:*_
1. Holding down OPTION+COMMAND keys and then launching iPhoto '09 and selecting "Examine and repair iPhoto Library file permissions." I also rebuilt the small thumbnails but nothing else.
2. Opening disk utility and repairing disk permissions on Macintosh HD
3. Downloaded BatChmod and changed all the permissions as suggested in the links below. Initially the checkmark for apply to enclosed folders and files was not available. I selected another file then returned and it was available.
Also my permissions for the iPhoto library (and a quick survey of the package contents -right click with mouse to do this) were set to Read Write for my User account, for Group (_unknown in my case) and for Everyone without running BatChmod. Select your iPhoto library and press COMMAND+I to check this. I chose to run BatChmod anyways to ensure every file was indeed wide open as far as permissions go.
http://www.macchampion.com/arbysoft/ *-BatChmod link*
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12507401#12507401
http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/
_*Repaired Fonts*_
1. Opened Font Book and selected all the fonts then from the menus:
-Edit > Resolve Duplicates
-File > Validate Fonts
I then deleted the most severely affected fonts marked with red. I still had several marked yellow "minor problems were found. Proceed with caution."
Backups
1. Time Machine Backup on External Drive, plus another Time Machine Backup on another drive but it's about a week out of date.
2. Copy of iPhoto '09 application on a different External Drive then the Time Machine Backup (Usually found at the folder /Applications)
3. Copy of iPhoto '09 library folder on a different External Drive then the Time Machine Backup (Usually found in the folder /Users/User/Pictures )
This way I've got two ways of going backwards to iPhoto 09 if necessary - using the Time Machine backups (which appears to be painful for some) and failing that option simply dragging back actual untouched copies of iPhoto '09.app and iPhoto '09 library with photos, preferences, keepsakes, events etc all intact. (iPhoto '11 makes changes to the iPhoto '09 library files and removes the '09 app as well).
I then turned off Time Machine to prevent it from backing up further.
Install
Then in went the iLife '11 disc. No problems with the installation. After the install I *immediately opened Software Update from the Apple menu, and did not open iPhoto.*
iPhoto Update 9.1 came up and I installed it. A restart was not required but I did one anyways. Interestingly enough when I did a COMMAND+I to get info on the new iPhoto '11 library it showed different permissions of User -read/write, and Everyone -read/write. No groups listed.
I then opened iPhoto '11 and got the following message with the options to Quit or Upgrade. I clicked Upgrade.
" *The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto* Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete."
My fairly _*large 185 GB library took 28 minutes to upgrade*_ and showed a progress bar as well as the monochromatic spinning wheel.
Success! All of my photos, events, places and albums, smart albums, MobileMe books and cards and slideshows are present and I can even edit a book I started. My iPhoto library is the same size give or take a MB.
Was all this necessary? We'll never know. I certainly wouldn't expect a first time Mac user to do the BatChmod steps or the Font Book steps, or even the Permissions steps, however I would expect everyone to do the backup steps of at least Time Machine.
We are talking valuable photos which are not replaceable, some people run into burning buildings to save their photos, so a quick backup seems reasonable. Turns out I didn't need my backups but I had no hesitation doing the upgrade with them in place.
In Summary:
1. Repair Permissions on your hard drive and iPhoto Library (see above for specifics)
2. Remove duplicate Fonts and Validate and Remove trouble fonts in Font Book
3. Backup, Backup, Backup. If possible with Time Machine and also separate exact copies of iPhoto library folder and iPhoto app itself.
4. Install iLife '11 and restart.
5. _*DO NOT OPEN iPhoto '11 YET*_, but DO OPEN Software Upgrade and install iPhoto version 9.1 (iPhoto '11 is version 9 of the software, iPhoto '09 is version 8)
6. Open iPhoto '11 and wait patiently for the upgrading of your previous library.
This process worked seamless for me, and was headache free. I'm now also going to keep an offsite backup of my computer either in the cloud or at a friend, family or work location.
Hope this helps!

Thanks so much - Iphoto has been driving me nuts for a while now. Permanent spinning wheel in Places and requiring force quit almost everytime. Following the advice to repair Iphoto permissions removed the spinning wheel from Places and Iphoto is completely back to normal

Hung on White Apple Screen after successful upgrade to Leopard

After doing an upgrade on my daughters iMac, and the installation saying it was successful, I pressed the button to reboot. It started to reboot, played the little music when it first starts up, and then the white screen with the Apple logo came up with the little circular animation, and then it just hung. No amount of rebooting worked, and I booted into single user mode as well, which worked fine. Then did the fsck, and mount commands to access the file system, but I don't have an application enhancer bundle installed, which was the only post on this forum that seemed to match my problem.
Has anybody seen this, and is there a solution. Right now, the iMac is a brick!
Thanks.

That's an interesting approach. I will have to try it. Actually, I am thinking there might be an easier way. I can boot into single user mode, by holding command-s. If I could eject the DVD, which I cannot do right now, at the command line, then I could try an archive install and see if that works. Is there a way to eject the DVD from single user mode at the command line. I know how to do this under Linux, but the eject command doesn't appear to be there on Darwin.

Successful upgrade - Sharing the Love

When reading all the problem posts here, I was almost too afraid to upgrade me beloved iMac to Leopard. I had Tiger 10.4.11 purring right along, staying away from 3rd party interface add-on's and trying to keep my setup clean and simple. I can't remember the last time I had a kernel panic or had to force shut down an application. I do mostly photography and manage my music collection, 3200 photos and 45GB of music, and I use Office 2004 and VPN for work. I'm not what most would consider a power user.
My experience so far has been painless. I ordered Leopard 10.5.1. Family Pack, a 500GB Iomega Firewire drive, and Quicken 2007 (I had 2005 which isn't Leopard compatible) from Apple on Friday and they arrived today (Monday). Cudos to the Apple Store... 2 day shipping means 2 day shipping!
The Iomega drive is fast and quiet. Only 2 hours to backup 104GB with Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I slid in the Leopard DVD and ran the installer and left the default Upgrade selections alone. Took 1 hr 10 minutes total to install and reboot. Downloaded the Software Updates and I'm up and running.
I had to download an update for Cisco VPN (4.9.1 build 100) and it runs beautifully with Chicken Of The VNC. Connected remotely to 4 PC's at work simultaneously... no problems.
So far, Quicken 2007, Pocket Quicken 2.5.1, Palm HotSync and the iSync conduit, Photoshop Elements 3.0, The Printshop 2, Word and Excel 2004, iWork '08, iLife '08, Chessmaster 9000, Doom 3, and Hoyle's Card Games all run great under Leopard, though I haven't pushed them to their limits. My Epson CX5000 prints and scans with the updated Scan.app 2.95A.
So, like I said, so far it's been easy and painless. Anyone reading these boards needs to remember that most people post problems, not success stories. Just wanted to share

I agree with you whole heartedly. I've used Apple and Macs for as long as they have been around. If I wasn't a long time loyal Apple/Mac user and I read some of the problems that I have see on this forum, I'd be scared about buying a Mac. However, you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.

Successfully upgraded to 3.3 Unable to backup to external hard drive. Aperture closes unexpectedly without error message.

Upgrade to 3.3 was successful. My library is stored on an external hard drive and I have vaults stored on different hard drives. Aperture seems to be functiong OK but I am unable to backup to my external hard drives. The application seems to go through the process of upgrading the library again and quits unexpectedly at step seven without an error message. Anyone come up with a work around before Apple sorts this bug out?

What do you mean when you say "unable to backup to my external drives"? Are you updating your Vaults? If so, are you able to create a new Vault? If you are, create them and confirm that they work. If they work, delete the old Vaults and keep the new ones.

HT4623 After what appeared to be a successful upgrade my 4S phone has completely shut down with a full battery charge, no response at all, ideas?

My 4S crashed after the IOS6 upgrade, finished successfully now nothing, ideas?

press the sleep/wakeup button and home button at once for atleast 15 sec it will reboot itself and ur problem will be solved

Success Upgrade Considerations

What do I have to consider when preparing an upgrade project?
Before deciding for an SAP upgrade project, there are strategic, business-driven, technology and project-related aspects to be considered. As part of your company-specific IT strategy, you need to determine the best timing for the transition of your existing SAP solution to the next SAP software generation, e.g. as an SAP R/3 customer to mySAP ERP or the ESA based architecture of future mySAP solutions. Beside those strategic aspects, business drivers that are enabled by latest SAP solutions, such as mySAP ERP may determine the best timing and the right target release for the upgrade of your existing SAP solution. Therefore, an upgrade decision highly depend on overall IT strategy and the business needs to be an early adopter of ESA or mySAP ERP. Find essential information that help to get a company-specific answer to those questions at the SAP Upgrade Info Center or mySAP ERP upgrade pages. Furthermore, technical prerequisites (see question above) need to be verified in order to determine the technical feasibility of an upgrade to a specific target release, e.g. ECC 5.0 as part of mySAP ERP. In preparation of an upgrade project, you may also want to estimate the costs and to ensure that your upgrade project team is staffed appropriately. SAP upgrade offerings such as the SAP Upgrade Roadmap or SAP upgrade services may help in this matter. For SAP R/3 Enterprise (also shortly available for mySAP ERP 2004), project statistics of successful completed upgrade projects can provide insight to of other customers upgrade experiences.

OK let's take a step back here.
First of all the upgrade to the help's source files does not affect the help output in any way untill such time as they are generated and published to the location where the current help resides. I would also strongly recommend that you have two separate publish locations (test and live). That way you can publish to your test location without affecting what your users see and use. Only when you are happy would you publish to your live location on the server.
Secondly, as far as the RoboHelp Server application is concerned there is a significant change in it's set-up and installation. Not least it now uses Tomcat open source software and the Java Runtime Environment. You can still use Windows IIS if you want. The link I posted in my previous response should cover most of the queries you have in this area.
For your final question, I'd say that if the server is down your users can't have access to the help. You may wish to employ a backup method along the lines we do here. The application attempts to access the online help located on our server. This requires an internet connection. If there is no internet connection, or the attempt to access the server times out, the application accesses the local CHM file which we also install with the application.
Read the RoboColum(n) for mutterings on RoboHelp, Technical Communication Suite and technical communication.

How do I successfully upgrade my iPhoto Library from 7.1.5 to 9.5.1

I've been running iPhoto on my MacBook for the past 6 years. I've accumulated a library of 280GB of photos. I had iPhoto '08 v 7.1.5 (387). Recently, I got a new Mac running Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1. Using the Migration Assistant, I copied my library over to the new Macbook Pro, along with all my other files. I opened iPhoto on the new mac, and it showed a completely empty library. A 'du' from the command line (as well as Info in Finder) of the iPhoto library showed it had 280GB of space taken up, so the files were copied over correctly. Running 'find . -print | xargs md5 | sort' on both libraries before before trying to run the new iPhoto produced identical checksum on all the files (I wiped the new mac, reinstalled Mavericks and migrated again before running this on the new library).
I've also tried copying the old library to an external hard disk, same results (on file systems formatted to ignore case as well as those formatted to respect case, in all cases it was a MacOS Extended partition).
I've also tried creating a new library on the old mac, putting 2 photos in it, editing those photos (to flip and crop them). I copied it over to the new Mac (volume formatted as Mac OS Extended, ignore case, journalled), verified that I was using the proper path to this new library and that the files were identical. Same result.
Over the past two months I've tried everything I could find. One thread said I needed a migration program from such an old version of iPhoto for the Mac, so I tried downloading that from this forum, but it told me I didn't need it when I ran it.
I've tried dragging individual folders of the Originals and Modified directories over. That got my photos transferred, but the events were all messed up and the assiciation between the Original and Modified photos was lost. Since I have 43,995 photos, 23747 of which have been modified, I don't find this to be an acceptable migration path.
I tried posting this to another thread on failure of iPhoto to upgrade properly to Mavericks, but was requested to post a new thread due to protocol in these forums, so here is the new thread after making an admittedly snarky comment that Apple totally dropped the ball on this upgrade path and that it totally doesn't work. It should be this hard for a clueful computer professional with 30 years of experience to get it right.
Yours In Frustration.

There's actually an option to iPhoto Library Manager that makes this all almost work flawlessly (and work well enough for me). With the exception of Photo Albums that the pictures are part of, if you select "Library > Rebuild Library..." and then select "Scavange Orphaned Photos" check box, then it will put all the Photos and Movies into the "Scavanged Photos" album. It matches the modified pictures to their originals. It preserves all the event names and photo groupings. All the meta-data I could spot check it got right (although with 44k pictures, I only checked a few). If you fail to select this option, however, it will find no pictures at all when it goes to rebuild the library (this was true of the small test libraries I tried as well as the big, monster 280GB library I just finished converting). The conversion process took 5 hours to run, but in the end produced a library my new iPhoto can read and that I can interact with. I'll be suggesting to the iPhoto Library Manager folks a notation that would estimate the number of Orphaned Photos and display that number as a hint to the user that the option would be useful.
Edited: Thanks to Old Toad and LarryHN for their help in finding which of the many options to transition this library to 9.5.1 I needed to use. Sorry if I took my frustration of the past several months out on you guys for generously trying to help me.

HT1926 After successfully upgrading my Apple software, I was able to download iTunes. But I cannot start it up, instead I get this error message, "The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." What ne

I needed to upgrade my iTunes to register and sync a iPhone 5c. I upgraded by Apple Software and finally was able to download the upgraded iTunes. When I try to start iTunes I get this message, "The file iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. How can I repair this?

If you still have an issue you may have to see about using the iTunes version (application) included with Snow Leopard 10.6 from the installer or an another one if available online, and see if that will install.
Sometimes you may have uninstall the bits left in your system by the earlier (or later) iTunes installers; as they all leave a trace and these can stop a different version of iTunes from being installed.
Not sure if the following site/link will tell the method...
•Apple - Support - iTunes - install & update:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/install/
•Troubleshooting iTunes installation on Mac OS X:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2311
Good luck & happy computing!
ps: i see you resolved this issue. it's magic!

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