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Oct 21, 2005
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Like many people out there I'm not very happy with the iTunes 11 update and want to revert to 10.x (10.7 being the latest before 11 I believe). There are plently of threads and web pages out there explaining how to do it which IIRC in a nutshell consists of deleting iTunes 11, replacing the existing "iTunes Library.itl" file with an older (10.7 generated) backup from the "Previous iTunes Libraries" folder, installing 10.7 and finally restoring an older backup of the iTunes library from when 10.7 was last used.

I'm OK with that, but obviously I have to manually extract all the newly added media files, playlists etc. and keep track of any changes since I last used 10.7, and add that manually after having downgraded (and replaced the existing library with the latest 10.7 compatible library) -something which will take a lot of time and effort to get right.... or am I missing something?
I actually have several iTunes libraries meaning I'll have to repeat the process several times. Is there a way to simply export everything from 11, downgrade to 10.7 and import those files/playlists into empty and newly created libraries instead?
 
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