[iTunes] Importing Screwed Up Without Warning

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Michael Prete wrote:

>>> I've always had my Preferences set in iTunes to "import cd, then eject", which has always worked in the past.
>>> 
>>> Is my iTunes Preferences file trashed? And if this is the problem, what's the least painful way to remedy it. Run AppleJack? Throwing the file away (I'm not sure where it lives) and restarting?
>> 
>> "Run AppleJack?" And how is that supposed to fix anything? AppleJack is no miracle tool...
> 
> 
> Scott asked previously if his preference files might be corrupted (he said "trashed"). And AppleJack does, in fact, verify preference files ( .plist ) and isolate those suspected to be corrupt. So it is quite logical to run AppleJack to deal with the possibility that Preference Files are corrupt. AppleJack also performs 4 other functions that are frequently useful as well: Disk Repair, Permissions Repair, clear cache files and swap file removal.

Corrupted preference files are extremely rare. Permissions repair does basically nothing. Swap file removal serves no purpose. 

Utilities like that give a false sense of security. It used to be, "I repaired permissions, and that didn't do anything," because in 99.9% of cases it doesn't. Now it's, "I ran ApplJack/Onyx/Cocktail and it didn't do anything."


Kirk

Author of: Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office
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