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ITunes Access Privileges Error?!?!

Hello,

I'm in desperate need of the vast knowledge and experience of all you experts...
Been receiving this error message every time I try to sync my iPod with my iTunes folder or my Wife's.

Attempting to copy to the disk " iPod" failed.
You do not have enough access privilege for this operation.
iTunes could not save to you iTunes Music Folder because you do not have write access. Check your permissions on your Music Folder and folders in your Music Folder, then try copying this file again.

This has got me really stumped?!?!?!?!
The permissions on the "iTunes Music" folder for Admin and Everyone are Read + Write????
(unknown) is Read only.
Not sure what else to do.
I've done the 5 R's on the iPod and even wiped the drive clean.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much in advance.

PowerMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iTunes 8.1

Posted on Apr 4, 2009 5:20 PM

44 replies

Jul 3, 2009 3:25 PM in response to gazl82

Please explain for the rest of us how Ms. Wordsmith's advice helped you. We'd like to know.

Jul 3, 2009 3:44 PM in response to Germancity

I suspect that he navigated to his music folder through Finder, did Get Info, made sure the folder had Read and Write permissions AND made sure that it was applied to all enclosed folders (click the Gear if you're on Leopard) and that doing this fixed the problem.

Jul 3, 2009 5:24 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

That's what I suspected. Unfortunately, that hasn't worked for me. I'm still at a dead end with this issue. Thank you for trying, nonetheless.

Jul 13, 2009 10:56 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

This also worked for me...although I had to ad a step to get it to work.
I found the iTunes folder (inside the Music folder) had the privileges set to read and write for groups, but the sub folders didn't, they had 'read only' for some of the enclosed stuff . I changed one of the permissions on the iTunes folder to 'read only' then changed it back to 'read&write' and then hit the little gear thing to 'apply to all enclosed'. Everything works well now.

Jul 14, 2009 5:55 PM in response to Hemmer.Felix

I'm going to try this. I'll let everyone know if it works. Thanks.

Jes B

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Dec 9, 2009 6:49 AM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Thank you SO MUCH! I just wasted an hour trying to figure out how to get my purchased songs to download. I kept getting an error that said I did not have enough access privileges to download. I had changed the permissions on all itunes related folders and files EXCEPT all of the album folders (since there are so many of them. I had no idea how to apply the permissions option I had selected to all of the folders within a folder. Your advice about the gear symbol totally saved me. Thank you thank you!

Jan 24, 2010 9:10 AM in response to Germancity

I attempted to address this issue by creating a new account and initializing a new instance of iTunes. When the BLANK instance of iTunes had the same problem when I attempted to download anything from the iTunes Music Store I decided the problem was in the /Library folder.

I attempted to uninstall iTunes (but not QuickTime or any other component iTunes touches). This left me with the same result as always -- iTunes not working with the familiar access error.

I would suggest focusing attention on peripheral components that iTunes touches starting with perhaps QuickTime. I'm upgrading the affected system to Snow Leopard and will repost with further findings and results.

Jan 24, 2010 11:14 AM in response to Old-Mac'ie

So I'd advise against changing too many system permissions to RW everywhere. I corrupted my MacOS X installation.

However after reloading the OS (duh?) the problem gets wiped with the drive. This is only useful for anyone already planning an OS migration I'll admit. I have a complete backup however and if time permits I will try to find the root cause.

ilami01

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Feb 26, 2010 5:42 PM in response to Germancity

LMAO ITS SOOO EASY. Just right click on the root folder in programed files/itunes and right click on original itunes icon and select run as administrator 🙂

thats all she wrote.

lesnla

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Oct 13, 2011 1:32 PM in response to ilami01

Same problem. I *am* program owner of itunes, I am home folder owner, I am administrator, I have done disk permissions repair, I have gone to the terminal to change the shared folder. Nothing. I cant download any updates to my ipad because I don't have enough access. It's been months and months and I want OS 5 now.

Anyone have any other suggestions? I am not ready to reformat this mac and reload my whole life on it... but this is making the ipad problematic when I can't update the OS. I've done no updates to it since I got it last spring.

THANK YOU if anyone can help!!

Oct 17, 2011 6:48 PM in response to lingenfelser

For whatever reason, my iTunes Media folder wasn't owned by myself... so, of course I couldn't change permissions through Finder with "Get Info"

This worked for me, although I'm not sure why it's necessary. In Terminal, execute:

sudo chown your-user-name ~your-user-name/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/

Dec 28, 2011 8:01 AM in response to Diane Wordsmith

This appeared to solve the problem for me (couldn't transfer purchased items from iPhone to iTunes) - went through and had to systematically change permissions from root music folder through to the discreet folders therein since "Apply to enclosed items" option seems to just ignore you...

As a matter of fact, the subfolders did SAY they were Read/Write for all users, however seems it was not so in the end since performing a forced persmissions change did in fact resolve the matter apparently...

Anyway; thanks for taking the time to post... seems to have done the trick.