C*nting iTunes

[thedarkprince]

Has anyone who's downloaded itunes 9 able to create a new library?  Holding down shift and starting it doesn't work...

Anyone know of any workarounds?

[jonny72]

It still works the same way on my Mac - hold down the alt key when starting iTunes.

One possible work around would be to rename the existing library so iTunes can't find it when it starts, which should bring up the prompt to choose a library or create a new one.

[flammableBen]

Has anyone who's downloaded itunes 9 able to create a new library?  Holding down shift and starting it doesn't work...

Anyone know of any workarounds?

Have you tried the other shift key?

[thedarkprince]

Have you tried the other shift key?

Please tell me you're taking the p*ss..?

[flammableBen]

Well most keyboards have two. I thought it might be worth a try.

[thedarkprince]

It had the same impact as the first shift key... bugger all.

[flammableBen]

Well it was worth a try.

Have you tried holding both shift keys down at once?

[flammableBen]

Ahh here you go...

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=149

Apple seemed to have messed up the old behaviour of holding shift down to create a new library.

It's apparently a bug with unicode keyboard codes. You can force the old behaviour by following one of two key sequences on start up to get into debug mode:

If your keyboard has an Alt Gr key, then during start up press 'up, down, left, right, alt gr + [tab]'

If your keyboard doesn not have an Alt Gr key, then during start up press 'up, down, left, right, alt + [F4]'

I don't know if that's any use?

[donkey]

fB - 'the other shift key'...bloody good work.  Dark Prince...you'll learn.