MacBook Air 13 (Late 2010) iTunes Freezes after 10.6.7

Plugged in my new iPad 2 and bang froze. Start iTunes bang froze. To answer your question most have this problem and I have no idea how to resolve it

I have the same problem. Connected a friends iphone and it froze, I restarted the computer and it froze again. My iMac is working fine with the update so not sure what they did on the MBA.

Hi everybody,

I'm experiencing the same problem. By the way, here is the link to the discussion forums about the issue:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2790883&start=0&tstart=0

It's all over this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1122287/

Also, there's an Apple discussion thread about it.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2791293&start=0&tstart=0

There are some temporary fixes but nothing permanent yet.

Oddly, I haven't had the issue (yet), but lots of people have.

KPOM said:

It's all over this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1122287/

Also, there's an Apple discussion thread about it.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2791293&start=0&tstart=0

There are some temporary fixes but nothing permanent yet.

Oddly, I haven't had the issue (yet), but lots of people have.

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Does Apple do QA anymore?

I did the whole boot into safe mode repair disk permissions, shut down, startup, shut down, start up, shut down, start up, then opened itunes....and this worked. i was getting rather desperate since I had taken my MBA to best buy with me to pick up my ipad 2 and so I could activate it, but the crashing kept killing me....took me about 20 min but got it all working.

All MBA Ultimates???

I do not currently own a MBA (but was seriously considering going to get one/order one today), but now I may wait again after reading through some of these posts.

But I have noticed in reading through the posts (as have others) that almost everyone having issues has the maxed out version of the machine (like 13", 2.13, 4gbram, 256ssd). So I'm wondering if it is limited to that version for some reason? Maybe a quick rundown in here of who IS and who IS NOT having the problem and what specs you have?

Also, this is just an idea. But the people experiencing this problem, do you have an SD card inserted? Or a USB device plugged in? If you remove the SD card and all USB connections, does the problem still persist? Stupid idea probably, but figured it may be worth mentioning.

I don't know, just some thoughts to see if we can get some posts in here to help figure out why this may be happening to others. Again, I personally have nothing to gain or lose by this right now other than my future purchase is now delayed until this is fixed. I was going to either order the MBA 13" 4gb $1399 or just go to the store to get the $1299 one today, but now I wait, such is life .

I can say that I updated my iMac 21.5", 4gb ram, 500gb standard hard drive, 3.06GHz C2D processor to 10.6.7 and have not noticed anything wrong with my desktop. I just opened itunes and downloaded my podcasts and updated apps for my ipod touch, syncing worked fine and exiting itunes worked fine. Just for my specs and experienced to be logged in here.

Good luck to everyone with the issues, I hope it is corrected soon for you.

Peace...

After reading some of the threads here at MR, I deliberately left off 10.6.7 upgrade when I upgraded my new MBA yesterday, and will only upgrade after the kinks are sorted out.

Hope a resolution is found for those experiencing issues.

I reloaded iTunes and it works fine.

Reinstalling itunes did the trick for me. Anyone know if this bug is affecting any other programs or just itunes?

There are numerous threads about this.

Deleting iTunes preference files seems to have fixed it for me

All of the "fixes" listed in all the discussions are temporary. Still having iTunes freeze the system.

Ravenwolf40 said:

I do not currently own a MBA (but was seriously considering going to get one/order one today), but now I may wait again after reading through some of these posts.

But I have noticed in reading through the posts (as have others) that almost everyone having issues has the maxed out version of the machine (like 13", 2.13, 4gbram, 256ssd). So I'm wondering if it is limited to that version for some reason? Maybe a quick rundown in here of who IS and who IS NOT having the problem and what specs you have?

Also, this is just an idea. But the people experiencing this problem, do you have an SD card inserted? Or a USB device plugged in? If you remove the SD card and all USB connections, does the problem still persist? Stupid idea probably, but figured it may be worth mentioning.

I don't know, just some thoughts to see if we can get some posts in here to help figure out why this may be happening to others. Again, I personally have nothing to gain or lose by this right now other than my future purchase is now delayed until this is fixed. I was going to either order the MBA 13" 4gb $1399 or just go to the store to get the $1299 one today, but now I wait, such is life .

I can say that I updated my iMac 21.5", 4gb ram, 500gb standard hard drive, 3.06GHz C2D processor to 10.6.7 and have not noticed anything wrong with my desktop. I just opened itunes and downloaded my podcasts and updated apps for my ipod touch, syncing worked fine and exiting itunes worked fine. Just for my specs and experienced to be logged in here.

Good luck to everyone with the issues, I hope it is corrected soon for you.

Peace...

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I have maxed out MBA but I am not having this issue. I have used itunes multiple times after the update and it seems fine.

Twice now I've avoided the freeze on mine by starting the Mac App store before I start Itunes, then leaving Itunes running. Not sure if this is a workaround or pure luck..

Beaverman3001 said:

Deleting iTunes preference files seems to have fixed it for me

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How do you do that?

deleting preferences is a no go over here

I seem to have fixed the problem. I used appzapper to delete iTunes. Than I went into user/library/preferences did a search for iTunes deleted all of those preference files and than reinstalled iTunes

No more freezing haha

i froze up while trying to use wifi. but it appears the problem has fixed itself?

i restarted a few times. been working fine now for a couple days.

Psilocybin said:

I seem to have fixed the problem. I used appzapper to delete iTunes. Than I went into user/library/preferences did a search for iTunes deleted all of those preference files and than reinstalled iTunes

No more freezing haha

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Does this appear to be a permanent fix or just a temporary one?

KPOM said:

Does this appear to be a permanent fix or just a temporary one?

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So far nothing most likely just temporary though it will probably freeze in a week or so lol

Got a maxed 13" and it's freezing what appears to be in 1 out of 3 to 4 times opening iTunes 10.2.1

Just found out I'm not the only one. Don't have time to try the fixes, would rather wait for an update.