Thanks Carlo. I decided to revert and followed your instructions with no problems except step 3.
I deleted both apps from iTunes and the iPhone, confirming both deletes. When I started step 3 to sync the iPhone minus Bento, up popped a message box saying that the iPhone had downloaded items that were no longer on iTunes and did I want to bring them across? I can't remember exactly what it said; sorry; but that was the gist of it. As I knew I hadn't downloaded any thing I rejected it. I cancelled the sync using the slider on the iPhone, waited what seemed like ages whilst iTunes still indicated it was backing up my iPhone. When it finally said it was safe to disconnect I then dragged the old app from finder into the iTunes Library and re-synced the iPhone. I then opened Bento on both devices and had to set up from anew again and sync which took about 37mins but now all is well and my latest book additions are on my iPhone so I wont double up. As an afterthought - I have just realised that I had, in fact, updated some data on an app (bus timetables) via 3G on Friday so maybe that was what the message was about? But that doesn't make sense as I hadn't synced since then anyway. I've just done another sync and the message didn't come up but the data is still on the iPhone anyway. I also checked and compared the app size and worked out the content of the Bento app when I synced was 1.45GB! Many thanks again Carlo. (PS - I'm already missing the look of the new Bento app. Must upgrade to Bento 4 soon.) Pete Smith iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.6 On 19/03/2011, at 13:27 PM, cm wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Well done in preserving the file! If the update to the iPhone app was free, > you have a painless way to revert to the older version that you just > recovered from Trash. It is easy enough so I will detail it here to give you > the option. The file you recovered should have a .ipa extension, that > presumably stands for "iPhone app". > > 1) Delete the app from your iTunes library -- in iTunes select Apps in the > left hand selector panel, find the icon of the app in question in the right > hand detail panel, right click or Ctrl-click the icon and select Delete. In > the successive pop-ups select Remove and then Move to Trash. > > 2) Delete the app from your iPhone -- press and hold the App icon until it > jiggles, then select the X at the top left of the icon and confirm the delete. > > 3) You can sync your iPhone now to save any version confusion (I am not sure > if this step is necessary) > > 4) Drag the .ipa file of your old version to the Library pane at the top left > of iTunes. > > 5) Sync your iPhone again to install the old version to the phone. > > And that's it. You can then at some future time upgrade again to the newer > version of the App, but until you want to do that, avoid selecting the app > for upgrade in the app store. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > > On 2011-03-19, at 12:54, Pete Smith wrote: > >> Thanks Carlo. >> >> I still had the app in the trash and have moved it to another folder on the >> mac for storage just in case. As I can still use both the iMac version and >> the iPhone app (just not sync) I will put up with the inconvenience for a >> little while. Either I'll update to Bento 4 before; or the other app update >> will come out and hopefully fix it. >> >> I dare say I'll stop my little personal protest soon and buy the update. >> I've been hanging out for it. >> >> Regards, >> >> Pete Smith > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
