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Apple Releases 11.2.1 iTunes Update to Fix Hidden '/Users' Folder Bug

hansonjohn590 said:
I hope you aren't a sys admin for a living.

Heartbleed bug? I better wait a week to see if anyone he any problems before updating just in case! :rolleyes:

It's never Apples fault, is it?

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Its 2014 and Apple still hasn't figured out patching vs downloading an entire new build.
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Um ... what? I didn't say it wasn't Apple's fault. This is clearly a ridiculous bug. My point remains the same.

And thanks for the irrelevant comment regarding Heartbleed, which has absolutely nothing to do with this.
 
Hmmm I still see my user folder after the 10.9.3 update. I'm happy with the 11.2 water for now. 11.2.1 seems like a rather large file. I will pass for now.
 
What an odd fix...

Why would the iTunes hide the Users folder ? unless some core components did this of iTunes were responsible.
 
And it seems they still haven't fix the mail bug (which is ironic because the very first version of Mavericks was working fine, even with gmail... and then they tried to fix it and now it doesn't work anymore).

Oh well, Apple Software Quality Control is not what it used to be...
 
Robert.Walter said:
Pretty cavalier and callous response and attitude, neither of which obviate Apple's dropping the ball here.

I would also bet that if he had used Dropbox instead of Thunderbolt, some numbskull would have accused him of using the wrong methodology.
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Nah, some "numbskull" might tell him that he was foolish to update a production-critical machine with a deadline approaching though.

Just a thought.
 
joe-h2o said:
Nah, some "numbskull" might tell him that he was foolish to update a production-critical machine with a deadline approaching though.

Just a thought.
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If iTunes is mission critical to you, you're doing it wrong.
 
Spid said:
And it seems they still haven't fix the mail bug (which is ironic because the very first version of Mavericks was working fine, even with gmail... and then they tried to fix it and now it doesn't work anymore).

Oh well, Apple Software Quality Control is not what it used to be...
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What mail bug? My only problem was gmail nit being marked as read when viewed on another device (iOS, another Mac or webmail ).

The early returns are so far encouraging but tomorrow will be the acid test.
 
thisma said:
FaceTime stopped working on iOS 6. The fix was to switch to the undesired iOS 7. On devices that don't support iOS 7 they issued an update for iOS 6 but you can't use that update on other newer iOS 6 devices.

Also Apple doesn't allow downgrading of iOS.
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Which devices support FaceTime that don't support iOS 7?
 
sualpine said:
If iTunes is mission critical to you, you're doing it wrong.
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The iTunes and 10.9.3 update were both released together.

Either way, the "mission critical" thing is the computer - making any software changes to it, especially unnecessary ones like updating iTunes, during a project would qualify as "doing it wrong".
 
iMouse said:
...yeah, absolutely nothing.

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iTunes 11.2.1

Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later

Impact: A local user can compromise other local user accounts

Description: Upon each reboot, the permissions for the /Users and /Users/Shared directories would be set to world-writable, allowing modification of these directories. This issue was addressed with improved permission handling. For information on the general content of iTunes 11.2.1, see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5434.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1347
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^^^THIS!^^^

This is *NOT* "nothing". This is a major security breach. If you haven't updated to iTunes 11.2.1, do it NOW. If you use a computer that is not shared with others, and isn't on a local network, it won't be too big a deal, but it still opens you up to far more vulnerability than is safe.

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electorate said:
Which devices support FaceTime that don't support iOS 7?
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iPod Touch 4th generation. The one with the longest "available new" lifespan, from 2010 to 2013.
 
All the Betas they send out....months of work test..re-jig, send out next verdion beta etc....then as soon as a general release is made....its bugged!
 
Dambuster43 said:
All the Betas they send out....months of work test..re-jig, send out next verdion beta etc....then as soon as a general release is made....its bugged!
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No betas of iTunes 11.2 were public. There was one iTunes 11.1.6 beta.
 
david401 said:
Nothing? I was working on a project at 2 am while I discovered I could not copy my 70gb project folder over to my laptop via thunderbolt because the users folder was hidden. I needed to get up at 5:30 am to bring the project over to a finishing suite to meet the clients deadline. This bug was not "absolutely nothing".
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Never heard of show/hide hidden folders??
 
the last itunes update also fixed a problem I have been having for a while now. Songs that I purchased first on my iphone once I would since them to my itunes, if I were to manually remove them from my phone, after I synced again they would continue to show up in my music list. They would all be grayed out and still listed, but not actually on the phone itself. I had been trying to get help on the apple forums and also from apple themselves with no luck. Now after the latest update they no longer appear.
 
Does this fix the issue where when having "Manually manage music" disabled, it doesn't let you sort the playlist how you want it (i.e, by artist)? Ever since upgrading to iTunes 11 I couldn't figure how to make it work again.
 
Kind of late to the party...

and I didn't have the time to read through all the thread. But maybe someone experienced the same problem and can help me:

I'm still running Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on my 2012 MBP (Yes I'm lazy…) but have always diligently updated iTunes. Which means that right now I'm at 11.1.5.

Unfortunately, I'm absolutely incapable of updating to 11.2.1: I'm receiving the notification that I should update, but once I've been taken to the Mac App store there's no update available.

It's really strange because Apple say that 11.2.1 should run under Mountain Lion and the update was also a breeze on my Windows PC.

Anyone with the same problem and a possible solution to it?
 
paysdoufs said:
Thanks. That was quick. Since I'm not in a hurry, I'll probably first check whether this is an incremental update or a full reinstall. In the latter case, I suppose it more intelligent to wait until Apple got it's server issue fixed.
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It doesn't matter, just go ahead and manually install. iTunes is basically always a full install regardless of how you get it.
 
chrfr said:
It doesn't matter, just go ahead and manually install. iTunes is basically always a full install regardless of how you get it.
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Thanks all good now :)

Really nice to have access to such an active and helpful community!
 
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