Beware of Apple Updater Software of iTunes

[Cheez]

Hope I'm not the only one who got into this mess. The new Apple Updater Software has some problems. This will affect those who install programs in different partitions with their Windows program.

My Windows is installed in C:. My other applications are installed in D:. When I run the updater (to download the laterst iTunes and Quicktime), the updater didn't prompt me and automatically installed a new iTunes and Quicktime in my C: drive. I then had 2 iTunes and 2 quicktime which took up an amount of harddrive. Attempt to resolve it proved difficult since uninstalling only removes the C: drive and not the D:. Then there's no other way to uninstall the one in D: drive as the registry altered.

In the end, I had to restore my drive to make it "clean" from the mess.

So, it's better to download the .exe installer than to use the updater software.

 

[DoubleDecker]

I think most updater don't ask where you wanna store your file. But then again, I thought it was supposed to detect where the program resides and installs directly onto the target drive?

 

[Cheez]

That's what I thought. Anyhow, I'm now trying hard to solve the problem. Already attempting to restore my drives for the third time since yesterday. It seems impossible to remove quicktime from c drive now. Will have to live with it...

 

[gutturalpiss]

i dont think its the updater. i'v faced similar situations with other programs, yet to find a reason/solution. i did it the manual way like what u have mentioned, uninstall old, install new. this is probably a registry miscommunication, because by theory the updater should know where the old version was residing and update it.

edit: have found a possible culprit. sometimes ur system keeps memory of the program for quite some time, and when updating, the old DLL still appears to b in use. when that happens, it doesnt overwrite the old one. instead, it would install the new version on a separate location. so by any means, which i still need to find out, make sure ur pc doesnt stupidly think that the old version is still in use at the moment of update. but then again, updaters are programmed to bypass this calculation and carry out the tasks intelligently.

 

[Cheez]

The interesting thing is this - I've never installed iTunes in any other drives other than my d: drive. But the installer copnveniently installs iTunes into my c: drive without even prompting me.