Couple questions related to a file permission problem

Thanks the quick reply on this. Yea, that is what I thought with the Repair Permissions - which makes it even more curios on why when I do run this, it is correcting (for a while at least) the problem I'm having. Again, it's almost like there is something overlaying this folder that is somehow impacted when I run this.

Anyway, I just ran what you suggested to at least have all in my Home folder as to where it should be, so will monitor things and see if makes a difference. Was unaware of this Utility so many thinks. Could also prove useful in the futire.

--B

Yes, have the itunes helper running in the background. Good thought. This would be something to check (disable) next. Going to give the reset for the home permissions reset some time to see how it holds up.

Have some doubts that it's the iTunes.app though as have a parallel library setup where I do all my major adds (I do it this way as my library is large ~300k songs so editing in the main is painfully slow). Anyway, I've checked this parallel library when I was experiencing the issue and no problem with this one.

Thanks again...

MacJack - So far so good after reseting these permissions. As a side not this fixed a long-term problem (over a year now) I've had with updating Genius and has made my iTunes much snappier. Again, many thanks for this. --B

So much for hoping this would tay fixed - permission prolem is back with a vengious. Happening almost every hour now and having to run RP to correct it. Disabled iTunes Helper to no avail. Investigated on what you of a lower level directoy link but nada I can see. ****, not sure where to go next with this 😟.

Thanks...I'll come back to you this weekend with this. On the road for next couple of days working from the pad...Bob

Back in had iTunes running most of yesterday and no probems. This morning running fine and then when was away for a couple hours and when came back message from Time Machine was it could not back up due to unavailable disk. Also happened to look at my iTunes Lib file (as left iTunes open) and sure enough was hosed. Manually selected to update Time Machine and no problem. Also ran Disk Utility to Verifiy the Time Machine Disk and all was ok.

Now here is where it gets interesting:

1) Before shutting down iTunes ran RP to fix it

2) After RP permissions showed ok using Get Info .

3 ) Closed iTunes (closed normally).

4) Went to open and the usual message came up when the Permissions are wiped - "No file found"/ Sure enough permissions where hosed again.

5) Ran RP again, fixed it and opened iTunes with no problem.

Below is the copy of all the messages reporting in the console during the period from 2-4 which should capture a specific instance where lost.

- Permissions ok here

11/27/11 5:41:20.734 [0x0-0x5fd5fd].com.apple.iTunes: Parent: Error or timeout on select

11/27/11 5:41:20.736 [0x0-0x5fd5fd].com.apple.iTunes: Child with pid 18055 exited normally

11/27/11 5:41:20.736 [0x0-0x5fd5fd].com.apple.iTunes: ATHostConnectionDestroy 0x7f7f8d364830

11/27/11 5:41:57.000 kernel: IOHIDSystem cursor update overdue. Resending.

--Permissions messed up here.

Thanks macjack. Tried over on the iTunes side but no luck which is why I tried here to hopefully get to the bottom of the permission issue. Unfortunately I already tried a fresh with a a new iTunes lib and rebuilt all and same with Lion after with a clean reinstall. Think at this point no choice but to live with this problem as it is intermittant and I know how to fix with the RP. Maybe will have some luck with the next version of Lion and / or iTunes. Thanks again for all your help here. Although did not fix the one problem, really happy with the Genius fix that came out of it. -- Bob

Macjack, just to let you I was finally able to correct the permission problem I was having by disabling Lion's Time Machine feature of capturing of 'local snapshots' with:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

This was a frustrating one....