Rolling black from iTunes 11 to iTunes 10.6...

[kasruesao]

So I upgraded to OSx Mavericks a few months back and I hated the iTunes 11 that came with it. So after much struggle and a crap ton of attempts at trying to roll back from iTunes 11 to 10.6, I succeeded using the below method.

I have run into a roadblock now. I have gone into the iTunes store to restore my purchases, - mainly the TV shows....But when I try to play them, nothing happens even when I download them or when I'm previewing a clip from an episode/movie. The video player is just black and the timer doesn't move. And every time I try to play a video, the popup for me to login and authorize my computer comes up - no matter what.

I'm at my wit's end. SOS.

After hours... this finally worked out! BUT, perform at your own risk, I was told it could possibly do some harm...

EXACTLY what I did:

1, uninstall itunes 11 using AppZapper

2, download 10.7 from this link http://appldnld.apple.com/iTunes10/041-7195.20120912.d3uzQ/iTunes10.7.dmg download pacifist as well: http://www.charlessoft.com/

3, open the 10.7 dmg file, you will see the pkg file(usally double click to install), but this time drag it out somewhere.

4, launch pacifist

5, drag the pkg file to pacifist and the click install from the menu bar

6, during installation, click replace everytime a window popping out (this is the key i reckon, something that can't be removed during uninstallation will be replaced by 10.7 completely thanks to pacifist)

7, installation finished, iTunes 10.7 comes back!


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many people are using this process to downgrade without knowing that the iTunes library also needs to be recovered, so I am adding this too thanks to jasko at post #22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXKZ2IBNsIA

basically you need to recover your latest iTunes library which was created by iTunes 10, by using previous iTunes libraries or from time machine.

cheers