Patrick J macrumors 65816 Original poster Jul 20, 2011 #1 iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help? Last edited: Jul 20, 2011
iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help?
petvas macrumors 603 Jul 20, 2011 #2 Patrick J said: iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help? Click to expand... Download an app like App zapper and delete iTunes. After that use Time Machine to restore your library file to a compatible version. Install iTunes 10.4 and you are good to go.
Patrick J said: iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help? Click to expand... Download an app like App zapper and delete iTunes. After that use Time Machine to restore your library file to a compatible version. Install iTunes 10.4 and you are good to go.
Patrick J macrumors 65816 Original poster Jul 20, 2011 #3 petvas said: After that use Time Machine to restore your library file to a compatible version. Click to expand... The earliest TM backup is from when I started afresh from Lion, I did a clean install.
petvas said: After that use Time Machine to restore your library file to a compatible version. Click to expand... The earliest TM backup is from when I started afresh from Lion, I did a clean install.
rorschach macrumors 68020 Jul 20, 2011 #4 Patrick J said: iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help? Click to expand... File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access. Reactions: kaskab
Patrick J said: iTunes cant be modified or deleted because its required by Mac OS X. I get this message when I try to move iTunes beta 10.5 to the trash. I want to install the 10.4 release. Any help? Click to expand... File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access.
Patrick J macrumors 65816 Original poster Jul 20, 2011 #5 rorschach said: File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access. Click to expand... Worked amazingly. My last played track picked off from where I left it 🙂 Thanks!
rorschach said: File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access. Click to expand... Worked amazingly. My last played track picked off from where I left it 🙂 Thanks!
E Ericgs macrumors newbie Oct 28, 2011 #6 Permission won't change rorschach said: File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access. Click to expand... I click on the everyone and also the up/down arrows next to everyone and nothing can be changed. I think I need to downgrade my iTunes 10.5 so that I can successfully downgrade my iPhone 3gs from IOS 5 to 4.3
Permission won't change rorschach said: File > Get Info. Under "Sharing & Permissions," change "Everyone" to have read-and-write access. Click to expand... I click on the everyone and also the up/down arrows next to everyone and nothing can be changed. I think I need to downgrade my iTunes 10.5 so that I can successfully downgrade my iPhone 3gs from IOS 5 to 4.3
C Chepe1980 macrumors newbie Nov 1, 2016 #7 Ericgs said: Permission won't change I click on the everyone and also the up/down arrows next to everyone and nothing can be changed. I think I need to downgrade my iTunes 10.5 so that I can successfully downgrade my iPhone 3gs from IOS 5 to 4.3 Click to expand... Try using the Terminal and write this: sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app Reactions: fastasleep
Ericgs said: Permission won't change I click on the everyone and also the up/down arrows next to everyone and nothing can be changed. I think I need to downgrade my iTunes 10.5 so that I can successfully downgrade my iPhone 3gs from IOS 5 to 4.3 Click to expand... Try using the Terminal and write this: sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app
jbarley macrumors 601 Nov 1, 2016 #8 Chepe1980 said: Try using the Terminal and write this: sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app Click to expand... Normally good information but they've probably moved past this issue, seeing as how the post you answered is 5 years old.
Chepe1980 said: Try using the Terminal and write this: sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app Click to expand... Normally good information but they've probably moved past this issue, seeing as how the post you answered is 5 years old.
fastasleep macrumors 6502 Oct 5, 2017 #9 jbarley said: Normally good information but they've probably moved past this issue, seeing as how the post you answered is 5 years old. Click to expand... These things called search engines help others find solutions to the same problems they're having. 🙂
jbarley said: Normally good information but they've probably moved past this issue, seeing as how the post you answered is 5 years old. Click to expand... These things called search engines help others find solutions to the same problems they're having. 🙂