snkhan

Q: iTunes Library cannot be saved (Error -54)

Hey guys,

Recently started getting the following error "The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occured (-54)."

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I've searched the forums and Google, but can't seem to find a solution which fixes the error and which does not delete my ratings and playcounts.

Any help appreciated!

Message was edited by: snkhan

Apple iMac 20" 2GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iPhone 3G 2.1, iLife '08, iWork '08

Posted on Feb 19, 2009 1:47 PM

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  • by cdeegan,

    cdeegan cdeegan Nov 10, 2013 9:47 AM in response to Annalea
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    Nov 10, 2013 9:47 AM in response to Annalea

    Hi Annalea,

    I have started getting this  Error-54 message intermittently when I open iTunes 11.1.3 on my G5 iMac running ML 10.8.5.

    My large iTunes library is on an external drive.

    My question is what file you used to fix permissions on via Disk Utility-was it the iTunes library .xml file or another one?

    TIA

    Caroline

  • by stormstereo,

    stormstereo stormstereo Nov 10, 2013 9:58 AM in response to cdeegan
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    Nov 10, 2013 9:58 AM in response to cdeegan

    Just open Disk Utility, select your HD and click Repair Disk Permissions. That should do it. Screen Shot 2013-11-10 at 18.56.02.png

  • by Ghost89,

    Ghost89 Ghost89 Dec 10, 2013 6:03 PM in response to snkhan
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    Dec 10, 2013 6:03 PM in response to snkhan

    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.

  • by Kevin Branch,

    Kevin Branch Kevin Branch Dec 15, 2013 5:37 AM in response to System Folder
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    Dec 15, 2013 5:37 AM in response to System Folder

    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

  • by FroCool,

    FroCool FroCool Feb 27, 2014 11:29 AM in response to Annalea
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    Feb 27, 2014 11:29 AM in response to Annalea

    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.

  • by Henrik Stilling,

    Henrik Stilling Henrik Stilling Mar 2, 2014 4:40 AM in response to snkhan
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    Mar 2, 2014 4:40 AM in response to snkhan

    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.

  • by jim0764,

    jim0764 jim0764 Mar 5, 2014 4:59 PM in response to Annalea
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    Mar 5, 2014 4:59 PM in response to Annalea

    Thanks AnnLea. Disk Utility worked for me as well.

  • by pacopike1,

    pacopike1 pacopike1 Mar 21, 2014 7:18 PM in response to snkhan
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    Mar 21, 2014 7:18 PM in response to snkhan

    Thanks AnnLea. Disk Utility is the solution.

  • by Clayton Rhoades,

    Clayton Rhoades Clayton Rhoades Mar 30, 2014 2:03 PM in response to Henrik Stilling
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    Mar 30, 2014 2:03 PM in response to Henrik Stilling

    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.

  • by Henrik Stilling,

    Henrik Stilling Henrik Stilling Mar 31, 2014 4:01 AM in response to Clayton Rhoades
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    Mar 31, 2014 4:01 AM in response to Clayton Rhoades

    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.

  • by pulsar77,

    pulsar77 pulsar77 Apr 29, 2014 12:43 PM in response to Henrik Stilling
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    Apr 29, 2014 12:43 PM in response to Henrik Stilling

    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 !

  • by L Ram,

    L Ram L Ram May 4, 2014 2:04 AM in response to Annalea
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    May 4, 2014 2:04 AM in response to Annalea

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

  • by trentfromsa,

    trentfromsa trentfromsa May 20, 2014 5:16 PM in response to snkhan
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    May 20, 2014 5:16 PM in response to snkhan

    I got the error after an apple software update.

    Verifying and repairing disk permissions fixed it for me.

    =)

  • by severeclear,

    severeclear severeclear Oct 14, 2014 2:29 PM in response to trentfromsa
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    Oct 14, 2014 2:29 PM in response to trentfromsa

    Disk permissions for me too - thx!

  • by RAIZIN,

    RAIZIN RAIZIN Mar 10, 2015 7:13 PM in response to Annalea
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    Mar 10, 2015 7:13 PM in response to Annalea

    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

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