Where is TiVo Transfer?
Posted 8 months ago by AldereteRoxio recently released an update to Toast Titanium 8, which includes, among other things, TiVo Transfer, the officially-sanctioned application for using the TiVoToGo feature of a Series 2 or Series 3 TiVo with Mac OS X. This application is used to move recorded shows off of your TiVo and onto your Mac, where you can play them back, convert them for viewing on your iPod, or archive them to DVD, etc.
The thing is, when I downloaded the ~175 meg update, and opened the disk image, there were five updated applications, but none of them were the updated TiVo Transfer. WTF?
Turns out you just need to run the main Toast application, and use the Extras menu to activate TiVo Transfer. The updated application will be written to the same directory as Toast.
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November 20th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I was confused on how to install the update as well….
February 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am
i bought Toast 8 and also found the“tivo transfer” in the extra menu bar. when i click the icon, it shows “tivo transfer could not be found” this is really WTF!!
March 21st, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hey guys, I found it. You have to right click on Tosat 8 Titanium and chose Show Package Contents. Then go to Contents, Resources, and copy the TiVoTransfer.tar.gz file to the dekstop or the Toast 8 Folder. Double click on the file and it should expand to the TiVo Transfer application. Make sure that is in the Toast folder and you are all set.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
regarding missing Tivo Transfer, I followed your email and got to the “go to the ‘Extras’ and click Tivo Transfer from there. I have the Tivo transfer image there but then get the message…“Tivo Transfer could not be found….”
May 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have the same problem. I should would like to know. I have Popcorn 3 and Tivo Transfer cannot be found. As in Toast, it does appear in the extras menu but cannot be found.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Regarding this problem in Popcorn 3: I got Roxio to give me a fix, and while I was very skeptical this would work…it did! Create a new user in the accounts section of the system preferences. Restart and log back in as the new user. Open popcorn, follow the setup and enable tivo transfers, and then go under the extras tab and open tivo transfers. Magically, it works this time! Once you do this, you can log back in as your usual user and it should work. Apparently there is some kind of conflict with something in the usual account, so this will bypass it. It worked for me and I am transferring tivo programs as we speak! Good luck!