iTunes Library cannot be saved (Error -54)

Just open Disk Utility, select your HD and click Repair Disk Permissions. That should do it.

Does anyone know how to do what Annalea is talking about on a Windows 8 machine? I tried google but I don't know what I'm looking for.

This worked for me when repairing permissions did not. Thank you, it appears my computer is running a little smoother/faster too. I appreciate your help!

System Folder wrote:

I had the same problem. Repairing permissions didn't seem to help, but resetting the home folder permissions did. See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209690

That worked! Thank you for the suggestion.

By the way, the problem popped up for me in the first place right after I performed a "Repair Permissions" function, so I should've thought to do this again.

Hello.

I experienced this problem after installing the new iTunes 11.1.5 update.

After reading some of the posts on this thread, I started looking for video-files in my iTunes library. I found some old movie-trailers, I should have deleted years ago (seriosly, who wants to watch the trailer for "Terminator Salvation" now? 😝). I deleted them and the problem was immediately solved.

Somehow the video-files prevented iTunes from updating the library, and the update wouldn't take effect. I guess I was lucky, finding the corrupting files so fast. If you experience this problem, good luck! It really isn't a fun problem when you have +5K tracks, all with ratings, EQ, artwork and playlists.

Time Machine can get handy very fast.

Thanks AnnLea. Disk Utility worked for me as well.

Thanks AnnLea. Disk Utility is the solution.

Henrik, How did you know the video files were to blame? I've had this error off and on for months and I have a large itunes collection (500+ gigabytes) and I'm not sure how one would know what is and isn't causing the problem.

I read somewhere that others had found video-files to be the reason for this error. I took a shot, and I was lucky.

There is no way you can detect what file(s) is causing the error. So I guess it is a matter of trying to delete or move some video-files, if any is present in the library.

I followed Annalea's solution and found lots of errors that were fixed, but the error persisted. I happend to notice that each time I clicked on Safari to read this forum, (and Itunes was running) I got the error. So I closed all my programs and apps and rebooted. First thing I did when I came back up was run the disk utility again. Sure enough it found one more error which was in Safari. I repaired that one and now I seem to be good.

So if tyou follow the disk utility permission repair intructions, it might be a good idea to do it after a fresh reboot and as few other programs running as possible.

Good Luck !

Thank you, Annalea. It soved my problem. straightforward.

I got the error after an apple software update.

Verifying and repairing disk permissions fixed it for me.

=)

Disk permissions for me too - thx!

not understand I'm going through the same situantion erro 54. I have the latest update from itunes and my phone is iphone 6. where I seek ( Applications > Disk Utility> Repair Permissions ) on my computer? My computer is gateway with windows 8

Hi RAIZIN,

The instructions I left are for Macs. I'm not sure where you would find disk permission repair in Windows 8 . . . the last Windows operating system I used was WinNTPro. (I was a die-hard holdout when WinME, etc., came out.)

I would say you might want to Google it. I'm sorry that I don't know off-hand for you. Maybe someone else here will?