Irritated at iTunes3 Installer

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Nothing irritates me more than having to restart after installing an application. Especially when its something simple like an MP3 Player [iTunes3].

Grrrrrr..........

[voice-]

If I understand correctly they can't update iTunes when iPod is connected. Instead of trying to get everyone to disconnect their iPods they make everybody reboot.

[adambyte]

Well, if so, that's just silly- Do they think we're too stupid to heed a warning that says "Please disconnect your iPod, then click OK"?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I'm assuming that the reason for a forced restart when installing iTunes 3 is because it puts a new "iTunesHelper" in your login items, and thereby requires a restart...

If you installed it exactly like it explains in the readme, you would throw away your iTunes 2 application -- and if you're like me, empty the trash immediately. I got a warning message telling me that "iTunesHelper" was still in use, which I expected. Restarting solved that problem as well as activated the new "iTunesHelper."

[Fahrvergnuugen]

none of those reasons are good enough to warrant a restart. One of the only things that I would accept as an excuse would be new cdr driver.

[Kristjan]

A restart takes, what? A minute or two? Go make some coffee or something and stop worrying about your uptime.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

what a useless reply that was.

When you have 15 applications and 30 documents open AND your G4 also serves as a webserver / fileserver its about more than uptime.

its about having to close all of your work, disconnect a bunch of users and have your webpage go down, then reopen everything that you were doing.

[davidbrit2]

Huh, when I installed the new iTunes, I just hit the close button on the restart dialog, rather than the Restart button itself, and everything kept running. iTunes works fine, too. That's rather weird. Of course, you can do some really hellish things to UNIX before it starts getting screwy on you.