why can't disk utility repair iTunes in "Repair Disk Permission"?

iTunes 11.1.1 was released to day. Try installing it and see if that helps.

iTunes menu/Provide iTunes Feedback.

lumox wrote:

Is Apple even working on it????

Why would they bother working on something that doesn't matter? It is not a problem. There is nothing to fix.

If it's an OCD problem, uncheck the little box that says "show details." You won't see the messages that are irrelevant and do not mean anything.

The permissions issues as described have appeared, disappered, and reappeared in almost every upgrade and update of OS X. Not always in iTunes, but in many different places over the years. Basically it is safe to say they will eventually disappear but another similar permission message will appear somewhere else. Don't worry about it.

lumox wrote:

Thanks for the attitude!!! Really helps someone new here!!!!! Won't be back

Happy to help.

No less than four people explained that the messages are superfluous, yet you keep going on about them.

If disk permissions don't matter - UNLESS - you're getting errors (and I'm not), then my question is:

Do disk permissions have no affect on my ability to download podcast episodes manually and retain them?

I can manually download episodes and they appear. When I close iTunes, then relaunch - those downloaded episodes do not appear.

Disk permissions show tons of iTunes errors and the repairs don't remain fixed. But that has nothing to do with any of the problems I continue to have with iTunes 11.1.1?

Additionally, the episodes that are downloaded won't sync to either my iPhone or an iPod. Looking in the podcast library, they're downloaded and play inside iTunes --- and the Sync Podcasts check box shows 30 episodes, but NONE will sync.

Deleting podcasts is still impossible. I've seen nothing fixed in v 11.1.1. All the problems I had before still persist.

Message was edited by: Belvadere

Belvadere wrote:

If disk permissions don't matter - UNLESS - you're getting errors (and I'm not), then my question is:

Do disk permissions have no affect on my ability to download podcast episodes manually and retain them?

Normally that is a plist problem. Offhand, I don't know how the podcasts are stored or indexed.

Disk permissions show tons of iTunes errors and the repairs don't remain fixed. But that has nothing to do with any of the problems I continue to have with iTunes 11.1.1?

It would have nothing to do with those messages that were posted. All of them have to do with the repair database thinking that files should be directories. I don't know whether the nib structure was previously a directory, which it may have been, but I believe it is now an xml file. That would explain the permissions thinking that the files should be directories. If you have something other than the nib files should be drwrr-xr-x but are -rwxr-xr-x messages, please post them. However, repair permissions only affects system folders. It does not touch anything in your Home, which is where all of your data is stored and processed. Repairing permissions would only affect problems with the Application not being able to access the files it needs to run. It would have nothing to do with your data.

I have not had any problems downloading, syncing, or deleting podcasts. iTunes 11 does have a strange new setup where you see different things depending on whether you are in My Podcasts or List, but it has not affected me the way you describe.

I'm getting the disk directory permissions you describe. Clearly, I'm just grabbing at straws at this point.

1. Can't sync podcasts to iPhone 4S or iPod Shuffle, manually or otherwise.

2. Can't delete podcasts.

3. Can't download podcasts and retain them beyond a single iTunes session.

4. Can't always (it's random, or seems to be) get "old episodes" of a podcast to appear.

Things are still very wonky for me. If anything, 11.1.1 made it worse because before I could at least manually sync podcasts. Now, I can't even do that. And I "restored" the iPod Shuffle three times (clearly am unwilling to do that with my iPhone).

FYI, the syncing seems to be limited to the podcasts.

For the past 3 or 4 weeks, i am using a new MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion. iTunes is 11.1.3 (8). It replaced a 5 year old MacBook that is barely limping along. It's been a pretty big adjustment for me because i was on Snow Leopard, was using Rosetta dependent programs, particularly Eudora since 1995, adjusting to Apple Mail, big difference, i am gradually trying to get my new system to do all the functions the old system would do.

Tonight, i finally got around to dragging my music files onto the new computer. I have been using AirTunes on my old computer. Tonight l found out that AirTunes is now AirPlay and is different in some ways. I went to the sound preferences and selected the Airplay device. Through iTunes, sound came from the external speakers briefly and then cut out. i tried to work with it and at some point, music played continuously through the external speakers. After about an hour, i quit iTunes. Later when i started iTunes back up, AirPlay would not work consistently. It's what i would call buggy. The music would cut out again, more off than on. At one point, the external speakers could not be selected in the Sound preferences. it defaulted to internal speakers and when i clicked on external speakers option, it wouldn't stay on, it kept going automatically back to internal speakers. Then, soon after that, external speakers disappeared from the Sound preferences output list and only internal speakers were listed. After some rebooting and permission repairs, external speakers returned as an option but continued to lose audio output almost continuously. Virtually continuously.

During this process, i noticed my computer became much slowed down. It has been very fast, opening webpages and everything on it happens immediately, usually. that has been the happiest thing about the new computer, really fast and smooth. But after trying to use iTunes wiith AirPlay, the whole computer slowed down. The processing is slowed down.

Until i read this thread, i didn't know that repairing permissions isn't helpful unless you get a message saying you don't have permission to do something. In fact, repairing permissions is the only thing i know to try when something is not working right, other than rebooting, not that it necessarily has made any difference. So, i repaired permissions. In the permissions that were repaired there were seemingly hundreds of iTunes contents nib repairs

e.g. Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/InfoDialogMultipleInfoV iew.nib”

I repaired permissions and rebooted 3 or 4 times, each time testing my computer to see if the quickness of the processor came back. It seemed a little better, but still sluggish compared to how it was before trying to use AirPlay. I have no idea whether repairing permissions had anything to do with any of this, especially after reading this thread. I repaired permissions about a week ago and none of those iTunes repairs were there, but that would be because the files weren't there til tonight. I guess the computer is trying to make sense out of all the new files. At any rate, none of the "repairs" repaired anything--each time, all the repaired permissions were repaired again--and again, apparently for the reasons reported in this thread.

Whether any of this is related to AirPlay not working and having bugs, followed by the computer processor slowing down, i don't know.

I would like to ask, since repairing permissions doesn't seem related to the problems i'm having with iTunes and/or AirPlay, are there other kinds of repairs i can do to restore the speed of my computer? I wish i could uninstall and erase AirPlay since it doesn't work and may be screwing up my computer system. Is there a plist i can delete that might help? Or anything else?