Thank you SOOOO much for the new update!

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I was so delighted, after waiting the 20 minutes for your latest OS X 10.6.8.whatever Snow Leopard to load itself, restart itself, and load itself again, that I actually hugged myself with joy; but nothing could have exceeded the sheer ecstasy of discovering that -- once again -- Apple has MORE than met the usual expectations with whatever the update has done to iTunes, and even to apps -- Firefox, Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements, just as minor examples -- that have nothing whatsoever to do with Apple! THAT'S what I call attention to users' wants!
This afternoon, I downloaded several gigabytes of public domain music from the State of Florida's Folklore site (I'd give you the URL, but somehow, in Apple's technical excellence, the new OS X 10.6.x update blew every bit of history up until the past 5 minutes, all cookies, and, MOST welcome of all, EVERY STORED PASSWORD for the hundreds of password-protected sites, forums, and wonderful discussion groups -- including this one --  I've ever belonged to right out of Firefox 5.0.1! Who knew Apple would be so thoughtful as to NOT merely  CLEAN, but annhilate, Firefox's cache & cookies, whether I wanted it to or not? What a bunch of swell engineers and forward thinkers!)
But I digress... back to iTunes. After I DL'd all that great stuff from the Florida Folklore site, I copied it all into iTunes, and made nice playlists for everything I got, all neat and organized so if I wanted to listen to the Georgia Sea Island Singers, or, say, Doc Watson, or Bill Monroe, all I had to do was go to the rock-solid iTunes playlists. And yes, I closed iTunes and reopened it just to make sure the playlists were there and had the right music in it, because... well, once in a millenium or so, an iTunes update does funny things to your iTunes catalog. You know: it doesn't feel... well, fresh, if you catch my meaning. Everything was fine and life was good. So I closed iTunes again, full of hope and butterflies and rainbows and good thoughts and stuff like that.
I came back to my Mac this evening and discovered that software update had new and greater marvels for me, in the form of 7 new updates. "SEVEN!" I thought, this has gotta be great, like maybe FINALLY support for 1080p through the now 3+ year-old MiniDisplayPort's input.
That stuff's chump change. Apple's no piker! I could never have even dreamed that an Apple Update would do so many things to so many apps, so completely and irreversibly -- not only blow out all the bookmark history and passwords from Firefox, but strip out every single new playlist I made this morning on iTunes, and hide EVERYTHING I'd added to iTunes in the last three months so that the Music Library couldn't find it! I was awestruck! But my joy would soon be lifted to an even higher plane!
Not only did the System Update strip iTunes of every new playlist I created this morning, it simplified iTunes EVEN MORE for me, by moving every single music file I'd added since June 7, 2011, to places where iTunes can't SEE them, and they don't clutter up the main Music Library window in iTunes anymore. Is that GREAT or what? Now I get to manually replace several hundred music files, and therefore save myself from the tedium of actually getting WORK done. It's like an iTunes Boot Camp Vacation! Just as a for-instance, here's how the new OS update logically placed some of the files I had taken such care to make sure were available in iTunes, both in their playlists, and in the Music Library:
None  of the songs from "Shall We Gather at The River" or "Florida Folklife Collection" show up in my Music Library now, by golly, so I don't have to waste my time listening to music I worked for a considerable time to get all safely tucked away in the glory that is iTunes. Ahhh, who needs music anyway?
BUT, being a "I love surprises" kinda guy, I've saved the BEST for LAST (also because I just found it out, when I tried to re-save these TIFF screen shots by taking them (first try) into PhotoshopCS and (second try) taking them into Photoshop Elements, which I keep as a quick & dirty backup app for just such purposes. Imagine my utter SPASMS of delight when BOTH Adobe products -- long-since bought and exorbitant-license-paid-for -- told me (A -- Photoshop): "You're missing a critical component and Adobe Photoshop can't open these files," then (B -- PS Elements): "Your license has expired for this product; you must procure a new license from Adobe Products)! BZZZZTTT! Wrong, I'm running valid retail licenses for both products -- or I WAS until the latest OS Update came along and blew my licenses out the back door. And who KNOWS about the hundreds of other apps and utilities I've paid tens of thousands of dollars over the years for? Have Apple's Update Engineering Wizards made THEM essentially non-functional, too? It's 1AM, and a little too late to explore. I can't WAIT to get on the phone to Apple Care and ask them to congratulate the engineers of this latest and -- so-far -- most spectacular update!
EXCELLENT JOB, DUDES! MY CUP RUNNETH OVER!
Message was edited by: Bartbrn: Had to edit a few mistakes -- I didn't want my post to reflect anything LESS than Apple's own excellence in software engineering.

Answer 1

Sorry, but I have no idea what it is you're referring to. You seem to be picking up a conversation in the middle, perhaps something you've been communicating with the iTunes Store about. None of us here work for Apple nor are able to know what you and the iTunes Store have said to each other, so you will need to explain in more detail your issue and what you wish us, your fellow users, to help you with.
Regards.