"iTunes Library file cannot be saved". What is this all about?
At regular intervals, when using iTunes, I will click on something, for example the search box and a box will appear saying "the iTunes Library file cannot be saved. You do not have enough privileges for this operation". Can anyone tell me what this is all about? It doesn't seem to have any adverse effect, but it is very annoying.
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I believe I also have much the same problem. The message appears regularly and persistently - even stealing focus from another app's window. It makes it very hard to do anything (not to mention the fact the iTunes now doesn't save anything).
I have my music and .ITL stored on an external HDD, I am running Windows Vista on a notebook. Please help!
I have been having the same issue. It happens when I am adding and removing files to my Ipod playlist or working on updating song information such as renaming albums or changing sort names. Sometimes it appears with a specific reason such as "not enough memory" but most of the time it just pops up without a reason. If I close iTunes then I usually have to redo my changes from when the message first appears. One time iTunes froze up after the message appeared.
This started once I upgraded to ver 8.216 from ver 7.43
Yep! The "not enough memory" message is something I get as well. Hey, if we get anymore victims, we could start a pressure group.
I'm wondering if there is anyone out there in iTunes-land who can give us an answer. I suppose it would be too much to expect anyone from planet Apple to inform us.
Well that answers about not having permission but what about lack of memory or simply coming up without a reason. It happened again last night after I switched a large number of songs from one genre to another. I had to constantly click to get rid of the message then the program froze and was closed by Windows. Very frustrating.
Well, I"m on a Mac and have the same issue and have not updated to the latest iTunes. I'm still on 8.2.0. The "cannot save iTunes library file" message just started out of the blue more or less when I was trying to figure out why downloads to my iPhone took so long to finish all of a sudden. I moved the preferences file to the desktop so it would create a new one and it was after that that I started getting the message. Now it occurs every time I remove a podcast or make any changes to the library list. Between that annoyance and having to reboot my computer every time I want to update my iPhone because that's the only way to get it to make the sync without it crawling like a snail, I find I"m getting really fed up with the whole thing. There are so many of us with the same problem that you'd think Apple would address it and fix it.
raven, that's interesting tht moving the preferences file started this. I don't know Macs, but I suspect your need to repair permission on the preferences file.
Someone in the Mac forums could help with that.
On XP, the preference files are in two places
C:\Documents and Settings\
username \Application Data\Apple Computer
C:\Documents and Settings\
username \Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer
Maybe WIndows users would have luck taking ownership and control over those folders.
Excellent suggestion but I have done that many times. It's the first thing I do before making any changes to my system. I hasn't helped. But thank you for the idea.
The same as you postbox1:
Updated to Windows 7.
The "permissions problem" appeared.
Checked the permissions: My user is the owner and I have full control. It doesn't solves.
Unchecked the read-only box and applied it to all subfolders. It doesn't solves, in fact, when I check the propeties window, the read-only box is checked again!