Extracting iTunes 12.9.5.5 from Mojave 10.14.6 InstallESDDmg.pkg
The important thing is to replace 12 with 13. The rest of the numbers shouldn't matter.
No solution for error -42408
Can confirm, this does work! I'm using iTunes daily again, which is incredible! Thank you so much Bogdan, mulțumesc mult de tot!!!! <3
Yes, I do. Sometimes I get a different error as well, and my hope is that some day we can disable that popup!
I also get 11571 that I have to dismiss too, then right after I get the iPhone syncing issue popup. But I'll take it for a better way to manage my music that Apple didn't have to kill!
Man, I am breaking my head trying to understand a lot of things without success but I think you might do haha I have an iPod 7th Gen Late 2009. I have a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro Chip and it only detects this iPod on Finder and iTunes 10.7. Unfortunately, iTunes 10.7 doesn't work for something that I am trying to achieve, that only works with iTunes 12.6.5 or newer. Is there any helper or tool that could be extracted from the 10.7 and replaced in the most recent one to make it detect the iPod? I honestly don't know what that could be, I tried installing the helpers and everything you suggested, but the iPod is only detected on the 10.7.
Hi, your script for iTunes 10.7 has worked for me on Ventura 13.7.5, MacBook Air M2 15", after the Retroactive iTunes broke with the 13.7.3 security update.
macOS has a naughty list
Bogdan, can you confirm if iTunes still works on Sequoia 15.4.1? I got the notification to update my system a few days ago and am hesitating to do that if I don't know that iTunes will break, I'm on 15.3.2 currently.
I wonder if you could 'fix' the error by just signing out of the iTunes store on your instance of iTunes. No sign in means it won't be trying to connect to the iTunes store, unsuccessfully, which results in the error.
No additional problems with iTunes on Sequoia 15.4.1.
Good to know on both fronts!
Just updated, can confirm it still works! Initially it gave me a question mark symbol in my dock but once I opened it from the Applications folder it worked just fine and I was able to drag it back in place and get rid of the question mark! THANK YOU AGAIN BOGDAN!!!! And the official Last.FM Scrobbler still works too!
It literally is.
Ventura on M2
set theDMG to choose file with prompt "Please select iTunes dmg file:" of type {"dmg"}
do shell script "hdiutil mount " & quoted form of POSIX path of theDMG
do shell script "pkgutil --expand /Volumes/iTunes/Install\\ iTunes.pkg ~/tmp"
do shell script "hdiutil unmount /Volumes/iTunes/"
do shell script "cd ~/tmp/iTunesX.pkg; cat Payload | gunzip -dc |cpio -i; ditto ~/tmp/iTunesX.pkg/Applications/iTunes.app ~/tmp/iTunes.app;"
do shell script "plutil -replace CFBundleGetInfoString -string 'iTunes 13.9.9' ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Info.plist"
do shell script "plutil -replace CFBundleShortVersionString -string 13.9.9 ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Info.plist"
do shell script "plutil -replace CFBundleVersion -string 13.9.9 ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Info.plist"
-- slimming iTunes
do shell script "rm ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesASUHelper"
do shell script "rm -r ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app"
do shell script "rm -r ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/PlugIns"
do shell script "rm -r ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/XPCServices"
do shell script "rm -rf ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/*"
do shell script "ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.1.dylib ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.1.dylib"
do shell script "ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.1.dylib ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.1.dylib"
do shell script "ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.1.dylib ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.1.dylib"
do shell script "ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.1.dylib ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.1.dylib"
do shell script "ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPodUpdater.framework ~/tmp/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework"
do shell script "ditto ~/tmp/iTunes.app /Applications/iTunes.app"
do shell script "rm -r ~/tmp"
do shell script "codesign --force --sign - /Applications/iTunes.app"
do shell script "open /Applications/iTunes.app"Once Sequoia came out, the Preferences crashing issue went away so if you can update, that would help there. I'm still using my old Retroactive installed version but did have to use the codesign command as described by bogdanw when the 15.3 update came out.
I think he is saying that you can't drag. I am trying to find a way around that too, as I manage my iPod classic manually, so I need to drag albums into it, but if an album has more than one track or if I try to drag more than one item at once, it crashes lol
I don't use version 10.7 for adding/deleting songs using an iPhone so I can't say if that's the case.
Yeah I tried that, it doesn't work. What bugs me is that my iPod classic 7th gen gets detected on the 10.7 (retroactive version) but not on any other version (retroactive or using your script) on Sequoia. I wonder whats the difference there. Is there any iPod helper within the components in the 10.7 that I could copy and replace on my 12.6.5.3 to make it identify the iPod?