Consolidate Library: Copying files failed. The required file is in use.

i found myself having the same problem after i wanted to copy my library to an external harddrive when suddenly my power cut off and the transfer was incomplete!

the problem was, that my library was partly on my mbp party on the hdd and i couldn't continue with the copyprocess.

"copying files failed, because you don't have permission to change your ITUNES media folder or a folder within it."

i found out that a lot of my mp3's weren't connected to its origin (mainly the oldest ones),

my itunes library file was corrupt!

A recover from my time machine backup could resolve the problem. all mp3's have to be connected, no exclamation mark's should be visible (try randomly clicking mp3's to see if they play). <- like turingtest2 already said.

hope i could help

Hi waldermaa,

Might be worth noting that the original poster's problem occurred well over a year ago. I suspect they are no longer waiting for a solution. 🙂

tt2

Well, I'm having the problem now so it's not resolved as far as the software goes. Taking the suggestion to attempt to consolidate chunks of my music at a time instead of the whole library, I'm partway through the C's and so far I've identified 15 songs and 4 whole albums that won't consolidate. There is absolutely no pattern that I can find as to what can and cannot consolidate. None of the files are locked. For instance the song Just Got Wicked by Cold on the album 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage will consolidate... the song She Said off of the same album by the same artist will not. It's very frustrating and annoying. All of the attributes are the same... I have almost 8000 songs so trying to consolidate using this chunk method will just take a ridiculous amount of time. This just is aweful programming to fail and stop execution of an operation on thousands of files with no useful output.

Secutiry permissions? Antivirus? Hard to read sectors?

Try my script ConsolidateByMoving and see if it fares any better, or it might give a more useful error message. The script Unconsolidated can also make sure you're not worrying about files that are already consolidated.

tt2

I looked at the file permissions and attributes in terminal and they are identical between a song that copies and one that doesn't and I don't run antivirus. Since the songs play fine and I can actually manually copy them on the file system, I wouldn't think there would be disk corruption.

I use a MacBook, so the VBScripts aren't much use but I appreciate the effort.

Ah, missed the fact this was a Mac thread bubbling up in my history. Doug's scripts should have something similar.

tt2