Hi, I recently upgraded to the public beta and before I update to iTunes 12, I was wondering if by any chance doing so would make my iTunes library inaccessible to iTunes 11 if I were to choose to downgrade back to mavericks?
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Will updating to itunes 12 make my library unusable to the previous version?
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iTunes 12 creates a backup of your old library when it creates a new one. New one cannot be opened with 11 but you can always delete the new one and start using the old one, again.
Because it's BETA software.
Nasty things can happen.And to the other repliers, I thanks for the heads up. Im afraid I'll have to give it serious thought to upgrading iTunes then.
I can attest to this, I had some issues with movie playback, deleted itunes 12 and downloaded the latest itunes 11, I tried to use it, but it would not open because the itunes library was from a newer version...but, now have 12 on my mac and working fine for now.
You could use my instructions to run iTunes 12 under Mavericks if you choose to downgrade from Yosemite: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/19401687/
Your "iTunes library" is literally just 1 file that tells itunes where everything is at....
You can ALWAYS make a backup and revert without issues.
This is why everyone nips at people using beta stuff without a backup, because having a backup makes solving issues so ********* easy.
You can ALWAYS make a backup and revert without issues.
This is why everyone nips at people using beta stuff without a backup, because having a backup makes solving issues so ********* easy.