I recently downloaded iTunes 10.6

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I recently downloaded iTunes 10.6

I didn't upgrade when prompted as per usual, I went to the actual website and manually downloaded the latest version. It's been installed, but now I can't start iTunes up anymore. When I try to start iTunes I get the following error message: (not literal because my language setting is in Dutch)

"iTunes needs a library to continue. You can choose an existing iTunes-library or make a new one. There has been an unknown error (-50)."

Does anyone know how I can fix this, preferably by keeping my playlists and other stuff (like # times played, etc)?

Your help is much appreciated. I'm running Vista, btw.

Posted on Jul 12, 2012 9:54 AM

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Answer 1

b noir

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Jul 12, 2012 2:26 PM in response to Swarles_Barkley

"iTunes needs a library to continue. You can choose an existing iTunes-library or make a new one. There has been an unknown error (-50)."

Interesting.

Okay, let's try giving this a go.

Hold down your Shift key as you open iTunes. That should bring up a dialog giving you the options (or their Dutch equivalent): "Choose Library" or "Create Library". Click "Choose library".

Navigate to the location of your existing library file. The default locations are given in the following document:

iTunes: wat zijn de iTunes-bibliotheekbestanden?

Can you open your libarary that way?

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Answer 2

Jul 12, 2012 4:02 PM in response to b noir

Thank you very much for your time, that probably would have helped. As it happens, after a while another update was prompted and everything worked fine after that. I don't get it either 🙂

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Answer 3

b noir

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Jul 12, 2012 4:15 PM in response to Swarles_Barkley

🙂 The important thing is that it started working again. Many thanks for reporting back to let us know how things turned out.

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