The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.

THATS BECAUSE THE PERSON WHO LEFT THE LINK OBVIOUSLY IS A SPAMMER! I DID THE SAME THING. I FRIGGING HATE DECIEPTFUL PEOPLE TAKING ATVANTAGE OF OTHER PEOPLE IN NEED AND IM GOING TO REPORT THIS PERSON. REALLY ****** ME OFF! GET A LIFE !

Hey folks, at the time I posted the iphonestuff4u link it was a legitimate site. Clearly it was helpful at the time based on the cofirmations that it helped to solve the problem. However, as would be the case, that seems to have changed in the subsequent two years. No need for the curt words or reporting me as a spammer; just don't click on the link now. I'd delete the post if I could. - Michael

Please see my latest post. No need to report me as a spammer.

GOOD STUFF KSANAND!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! THAT WORKED FOR ME!!! 🙂 NOW...BACK TO CONTROLLING MY GADGETS!!! GOD BLESS.

Well, I'm having the same problem, and none of the solutions that I've researched have worked for me at all. The iTunes library is on a GoFlex portable drive, and it works on every Windows PC I've tried it on with no problem as long as I hold the shift key to select the library, which is on the drive. But when I try it on the Mavericks partitiion of my MBP (using bootcamp), I get that same message that the iTunes Library.itl file is locked or the folder lacks permissions, or something to that effect.

There HAS to be a way to make this work. I was up all night trying and re-tryng to make this work before I gave up and went to bed, but it is driving me crazy.

Using MBP mid-2012 with OS X Mavericks with bootcamp dual-boot.

Problem solved! After some trial and error, I took an extra 3TB portable drive that I had laying around and formatted that as a Mac OS drive and copied the iTunes library to it. Then I pressed alt while launching to select the library on the external drive, and voila! It worked perfectly, all the files and music were there and played with no problems whatsoever.

Unfortunately for me, however, I still need to shuttle between Mac OS and Windows, so I then formatted an external drive as exFAT, copied everything back to it, and now it works on both my Mac OS partition and the Windows bootcamp partition, so it's all good now!

I hope this helps some other people who might be experiencing the same issues.

Thanks Luba, this worked a treat.

Another vote for just rebooting the NAS drive if you use an external hard disk for your iTunes library. I cut the power long enough that it has to renew its own permissions on startup and working fine again now.

I had tried so many solutions up to this point with no avail, but this worked! Thank you!

This will solve your problems: http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2011/09/want-to-really-repair-permissions-on-your -mac-try-this/

Thanks worked like a treat for me as well

clicked on the link you have listed and it goes through like 4 websites and it gives no advice just goes to website that is trying to sell something

Hi rdgrad06 - See my post from last April:

mwillitsApr 14, 2014 9:48 AM Re: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.
Re: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.in response to mwillits

Hey folks, at the time I posted the iphonestuff4u link it was a legitimate site. Clearly it was helpful at the time based on the cofirmations that it helped to solve the problem. However, as would be the case, that seems to have changed in the subsequent two years. No need for the curt words or reporting me as a spammer; just don't click on the link now. I'd delete the post if I could. - Michael

Hey everyone, the site no longer works, which I mentioned last April.

mwillitsApr 14, 2014 9:48 AM Re: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.
Re: The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.in response to mwillits

Hey folks, at the time I posted the iphonestuff4u link it was a legitimate site. Clearly it was helpful at the time based on the cofirmations that it helped to solve the problem. However, as would be the case, that seems to have changed in the subsequent two years. No need for the curt words or reporting me as a spammer; just don't click on the link now. I'd delete the post if I could. - Michael

For me, the 'Sharing and Permissions' section at the bottom of 'Get Info' was not containing 'Me' as a user. Actually this was the case for three files in my 'Music' folder.

1. iTunes Library

2. iTunes Library Extras.itdb

3. iTunes Library Genius.itdb

I added my username in this section, gave it 'Read & Write' rights and everything worked!

No idea why my username name was removed in the first place....