The launch of iTunes in its version 12.7 supposed a radial change for users who make use of iTunes to load applications, buy applications, download them or simply install them on your device when they have completely restored it, something that many users have done after the launch of iOS 11, so as not to drag operating problems from the previous version.
With the release of iTunes 12.7 Apple fully loaded access to the App Store, so that we could no longer access the Apple application store to download or search for applications. In addition, we could not transfer the applications that we had purchased to our terminal. A real nonsense on the part of Apple.
Apple wants us to only use the App Store of our device to search, buy or download applications, something that not like all users, especially when we have to search. Apple devices in business or educational environments are usually managed by a department, a department that is responsible for installing, updating or removing business applications.
With the release of iTunes 12.7, this type of department could not install applications directly on the terminals physically (they are not available in the App Store) or through iTunes, an error that Apple seems to have recognized and made available to these environments, version number 12.6.3 of iTunes, a version that allows us to re-enjoy all the options that Apple eliminated with the release of version 12.7.
Although Apple specifies that this version is intended for the business and educational environment, also states that it can be used by any user, so we will not have any problems when downloading and installing it on our device. This version will not complement iTunes 12.7, but will replace it completely, so we will not have two versions of iTunes installed on our PC or Mac, since Apple offers this version for both ecosystems through the following link.
iTunes Library.itl cannot be read
If during the process you see the iTunes message informing you that it cannot load the iTunes library, you should proceed as follows:
- We're going to ~ / Music / iTunes or where you have your iTunes library located.
- Rename the file "iTunes Library.itl" to "iTunes Library.itl.old".
- We go to the "Previous iTunes Libraries" folder and select the most recent file.
- Rename this file to "iTunes Library.itl" and put it in your iTunes folder
- Launch iTunes normally.
And can you continue saving, restoring if it is the case, backup copies stored on your own computer, no iCloud, with total normality as until now we used to do some? Thanks.
Thanks, I'm going to try it, I used the App Store and also saved the applications like Flightradar24 that I bought and now it has been made a monthly payment and I use the one I have in the ipa file
But that only works if you want to have the "new" iTunes, if you want to keep everything you must rename the file to keep all the information you already have in your iTunes.
What difference is there in 32 bis or 64 bis in windows environments because I was going to install it and I do not know how many my windows have I have installed in windows 7
It is not a matter of difference, but of the version of Windows 7 you have installed. Most likely it is 64-bit. To make sure, go to Control Panel and click on System. There it will tell you the version of Windows you have installed, x86 which are 32 bits or x64 which are 64 bits.
Well, as easy as copying the old iTunes folder you had and replacing it with the new one that you created and voala, it leaves everything as you had it.
Do you mean that by copying the iTunes folder that is inside / Music and replacing it after having installed the new version 12.6.3 with the one you already had, there would be enough?
I have done that twice and it has worked for me, the first when I installed Mac OS High sierra that I installed the new iTunes without the App Store 12.7 so I downloaded the previous version and I did it, when trying to open iTunes it would not let me and it urged to install the new one the 12.7, I passed, so I deleted the iTunes folder in the music folder and it already let me enter iTunes creating a new folder as if it were all new, then I changed it to the one I had my old one with all apps, music and tones and that's as if nothing had happened. In fact I have tested it on 2 iMacs with no problem.
2023 and it still works!