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Sunday, February 01, 2015

Goodreader USB, which do you suddenly fail on me?

I use GoodReader USB (first the original version, and then the 2.30 which supports GoodReader 4) to copy files to GoodReader app on my iPad 3 and iPad Air 2.  But today, when I launched GoodReader USB on my Windows 8.1 desktop, I got this error saying "Fatal Error: iTunes Not Installed".  I was like, errr!?  Cause the whole thing was still working yesterday.

And no matter what I did, I couldn't get the problem resolved.  I tried installed older version of iTunes but I wasn't able to complete the installation.  I tried reboot and problem still exist.

Eventually I give up, and simply use GoodReader's SMB feature to load the file.  It's slower, but at least it works consistently.

Hopefully someday I will have time to finish a solution.


3 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Same here, I assume it's after an iTunes update with a 64bit iTunes.

GoodreaderUSB doesn't work with iTunes 64bit and iTunes won't let you intall an other version.

2:38 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

You may have found the solution already . . . but apparently the version of GoodreaderUSB you need to use (32bit vs 64bit) is dependent upon the version of iTunes you have, not what kind of CPU you have. So if you have a 32 bit computer, no problem use the 32 bit version. But if you have a 64 bit machine, your itunes could be *either* 32 bit or 64 bit depending on how Apple felt that morning.

Bottom line: if the 64 bit version of GoodreaderUSB thinks you iTunes tastes funny, then try the 32 bit version. That worked fine for me.

11:02 AM  
Blogger michael sympson said...

I am getting ready to switch to Microsoft entirely. I had it with apple.

7:41 PM  

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