iTunes 9 - doing ANYTHING: spinning wheel...

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iTunes 9 - doing ANYTHING: spinning wheel...

I almost can't do anything with itunes 9. Everytime I press a button the spinning wheel appears. Sometimes for seconds but in general for about 30 to 60 seconds. There is no message, I don't know what itunes does but it *****!.

Like the white background, like the fact that there is still no "general view for all folders"-Button, ...

Oh yeah, and control-click on dockicon says: "application not responding". If that helps.

macbook 2.2 ghz, Mac OS X (10.6), 4 gb ram

Posted on Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM

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amp68

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Sep 9, 2009 6:07 PM in response to Lars2311

Same here. Glad I am not alone. Is your library on an external drive?

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dlm029

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Sep 9, 2009 7:39 PM in response to amp68

Hello,
I'm having the same problems, and yes, my library is on an external drive. I also think this may be the issue.

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Sep 9, 2009 8:49 PM in response to Lars2311

Same. External drive as well.

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Qubic

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Sep 9, 2009 9:11 PM in response to J Deschamps

Another case here but not external drive, another internal non-boot drive on a mac pro.

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Sep 9, 2009 10:23 PM in response to Qubic

Another one here! 😟
But i'm not using external drive and my library is at the default location.

Anything brings the spinning wheel...

Are you using Snow Leopard?

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Lars2311 Author

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Sep 9, 2009 11:25 PM in response to Lars2311

I use Snow Leopard and the internal drive.

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Sep 9, 2009 11:41 PM in response to Lars2311

Same problem here. External 1TB drive, large library.
Also iTunes won't now display the store, says I need to upgrade Safari to 4.0.3 - which it is!
Snow Leopard.

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amp68

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Sep 10, 2009 3:05 AM in response to Filipi Nascimento

Yep, I upgraded to Snow Leopard.

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SnakeTS

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Sep 10, 2009 9:12 AM in response to Lars2311

Got the same problem, too. Just installed the iTunes 9 update and currently running snow leopard.

During the "wait time" i can see high disk utilization (reading) on my internal device my library is on.

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Lars2311 Author

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Sep 10, 2009 9:29 AM in response to Lars2311

I downgraded to 8.2.1.
The ball, missing mini player and the annoying white background forced me to. Maybe there are some updates in the future, will never be an early adopter to new versions of the iLife-suite.

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Ko be

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Sep 10, 2009 3:37 PM in response to Lars2311

Same problem, how did you downgrade?
Thanks.

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Lars2311 Author

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Sep 10, 2009 8:32 PM in response to Ko be

Download iTunes 8.2.1 from apple.com
Delete iTunes library, iTunes library extras.itdb, Itunes library genius.itdb and itunes 9.app
Install iTunes 8.2.1.

Move your music folder into iTunes to add your music again.

dougscripts.com is very helpful if you have playlists like artist-album, there are tons of scripts.

It nevertheless takes some time... 😟

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steve000

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Sep 16, 2009 5:16 AM in response to Lars2311

Try unselecting Music in Spotlight Preferences...

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Sep 16, 2009 5:42 AM in response to Lars2311

The only files that you normally need to remove are the iTunesX.pkg located in the HD>Library>Receipts folder, the iTunes app, and the iTunes Library file which needs to be replaced with a copy of your library file that is in the previous libraries folder - select the newest on and put it into the iTunes folder after renaming it to match what is currently in the iTunes folder.

Reinstall iTunes 8.x - repair permissions with Disk Utility - relaunch iTunes - all is well - empty the trash.

MJ

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steve000

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Sep 17, 2009 4:08 AM in response to Mike Johnson12

iTunes 9 moved all my files into it's corresponding media folder. None of my files will be where the old library expects them to be.
Right?

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