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Upgrading Twonky Mac

January 20th, 2010 0

I just completed an upgrade from Twonky 5.0.68 to 5.1.2 on a Mac Mini server. It turned out to be quite a difficult task, in fact I gave up a few days ago and only now got back to it.

The first try failed with Twonky going a bit weird on me. I couldn’t consistently update the web interface, and it seemed very busy. Later on I found out that it was creating a lot of files in it’s database, perhaps getting stuck in a loop.

What I did, that finally worked, was to delete all Twonky files and re-install. This is probably the safest way to install twonky, but it does mean that you need to re-enter your license and set up your paths again.

You need to not only delete the Twonky app (in /Applications), but also all the files in [home]/Library/Application Support/TwonkyMediaServer. In my case this folder contained over 120,000 files, I guess that was something to do with what was going wrong. It took quite a while to delete these files.

So now it’s all up and working again. Quite a hassle for a small update. I suggest that you don’t upgrade your Twonky install unless you have a good reason to, especially as newer releases do sometimes introduce new bugs. 5.0.68 did seem to be quite stable for me. I’ve had a report of a problem with 5.1.2 and very large music collections, that is why I upgraded, just to test for any bugs.

Anyway, I’ve got Music again, which is a relief.

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