Unknown Error 13005 after upgrading

I was having the same problem and thought of uploading iTunes 7 again. My music is in my time capsule, I restart my computer and time capsule, reset the network and my iTunes (8) is working perfectly well. I hope yours is working now...

I am having same problem I can't even get itunes to start now gives me Unknown Error 13005. I have my music on an external hard drive through a USB port. I restarted computer and external but its still doing it...

Anyone have any luck with this?? I also sync my iphone through this and I can't do that now either.

Mike

I, too, have my iTunes library on an external USB drive and receive the 13005 error when I attempt to sync. iTunes was happy to remove items from my 1-gen iPhone but now will not add contents to it.

I have too much media to use an internal drive on my puny laptop so I would really like to see a fix for this.

On a side note: can Apple re-write SoundJam...I mean iTunes... in Cocoa? iTunes is becoming quite a clug but it has to work on both PC and Mac. Is there hope?

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iTunes 8 opens.. But I cannot get any window. It will play from the dock icon menu or if a open a song from my files.. No loading library window. I cannot get iTunes to appear in menu bar. When I quit from the dock and reopen it appears. Seems to be a start up issue.

I do have the same condition.. upgraded to iTunes 8.0 working till... a screen with the power log shown up asking me to rebot due to a problem; so i did it but now i can't run my music from my external 100G susb iomega hard drive....

any ideas...

For me I think the Genius feature got corrupted. Removal of the genius related files (iTunes Library Genius.itdb-journal and iTunes Library Genius.itdb) from my remote iTunes library (on a Time Capsule) allowed for iTunes to start up (but will need to re-compile all of the genius information). Could sharing a genius library among multiple (2) computers cause this type of corruption? Or was it a fluke?

I was having similar issues and resolved them, at least for now, by deleting a file that ended with the extension .lock in my itunes music folder. Not sure what it was but it looked funky since it reported a 0kb size and was a linux executable.

iTunes 8 had to rebuild as did Chris but works great now.

I went after this mosquito with a big gun and reinstalled the whole faggin system. It now works but it does seem an extreme solution. I have notice others having problems with corrupt back-ups but I don't know of of related. I suspect not.

Same issue for me. iTunes 8 and an external drive. The cause of the lockup happened right after launching iTunes. Genius started doing its thing, then I went to the iTunes store and did a search for a song. Boom! Crash to the desktop. After that, I got the error and no iTunes. Removal of the genius related files (iTunes Library Genius.itdb-journal and iTunes Library Genius.itdb) plus the iTunes Library Genius.itdb.lock files allowes iTunes to work for me as well.

I wonder if there is a limit to how much song data can be uploaded?

Anyway, thanks Chris for the info.

I've just had the same problem - iTunes library on a Seagate external USB drive, only I was getting an unknown error 13013 after iTunes started, before it quit itself.

Thanks for the advice though, I deleted the .itdb files and it has now booted up fine.

Thanks for the info Chris. Removal of the 2 files also fixed the 13005 error for me. My library sits on an external WD USB drive. Hopefully Apple fixes this problem.

I have had this problem for 3 days - have tried all the fixes suggested but note that all the responses are from Mac users. This is really bugging me now are there any other suggestions? I did not have the problem when I first upgraded to Ver 8 it only happened about a week later.

I deleted the most recent file in my iTunes folder: the Genius journal. This stopped my 13005 error.

Hey Mummygill,

If you haven't already try updating to iTunes 8.0.1.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

You also might want to try and re-create the iTunes library as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451

Jason

This is almost certainly related to Genius particularly if you have your music and library on an external drive (where else are you meant to put all those movies?) either a Time Capsule or USB. I think it makes matters worse if you share the music/movies/library across more than one machine because I don't think Genius can cope and it flips out... particularly if you have plenty of it!

Just delet the 2 Genius files sitting next to your Library, relaunch and then watch ITunes 'gather information' forever, again!