iTunes 9 Bug Update

15 September 2009 // Filed under Applications + iTunes

Earlier this week I wrote about what I thought was a pretty serious bug in iTunes when downloading content from the iTunes Store.  I had noticed a download that I had been unsuccessfully trying to complete for at least two days, an update to Navigon’s MobileNavigator, mysteriously started anew when I unplugged my MacBook Pro from the power supply, and that the 1.439 GBs of app that I had already downloaded vanished as if it were never there at all.

As a followup, I tried to replicate this bug so that I might report it to Apple, but to no avail.  I’ve tried both starting the download with the power supply attached and unplugging when nearly finished, as well as starting the download sans the power supply, later plugging it in, then unplugging it again once nearly finished, but was unable to recreate the odd behavior of restarting the download.  I tried both methods multiple times.

Here’s to hoping that it was a one-time event and not a widespread problem.

2009-09-15  ::  Christopher Williams