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iTunes Library Consolidation

Trying to consolidate files on iTunes (want to remove duplicates) and get the following error;

"Copying Files failed, because you don't have

permission to change your iTunes Media Folder or a

folder within it."


Quite specific.


I am the admininstrator on my machhine, and the only user.


Any thoughts on what might be happening, if not a permission issue, or how I can find the folder quickly that has the permission issue, as iTunes creates 100's of folders.


Thank you.



ekc

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), iTunes 11.0.5

Posted on Aug 23, 2013 8:28 AM

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Aug 23, 2013 8:33 AM in response to ekc2112

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run the following:


set theUID to do shell script "echo $UID"

do shell script "chown " & theUID & " ~" with administrator privileges

do shell script "chmod -R u+rwX ~"


Copy and paste the three lines above instead of retyping them.


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iTunes Library Consolidation

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