Posted by Laminar Flow on 11/29/06 10:17

"jan kowalski" <admin2@xxx.wokiss.pl> wrote in message
news:1qjae7aec2v53.1301cjgq867p9$.dlg@40tude.net...
> The (badly written) components of iTunes I despise are
> - iTunes automatically deletes songs under very common circumstances!
> - iTunes insists on installing unwanted unneeded software (Quicktime)
> - iTunes can't install (QuickTime) without creating C:\Program Files!
> - iTunes constantly tries to connect to the Internet!
> - iTunes can't easily copy from the iPod back to the PC!
>
> In the past few days, thanks to all of you, I've tested a half dozen of
> the
> freeware suggestions and most do most of the above.

Nearly all applications want to install in Program Files. Your default
registry settings dictate that. You can change that if you want, telling
applications to install elsewhere. It's unfortunate that some apps don't
give you an explicit choice for the install directory. But for most people,
that's not a problem.

Copying from the iPod to the PC would be useful in case of PC data loss. But
I'd still rather use my own PC backups for this function. I don't have faith
in an iPod (or other portable device) to serve as my backup system.

It is lame, though, that iTunes deletes stuff. I've never had that happen.
Does anyone have specific information detailing the circumstances under
which this hapens?

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