Hello,

My iTunes has suddenly stopped giving me access giving the message "The iTunes library .itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."

The iTunes forum says that I need I need to uncheck the "read-only" attributes by right-clicking on the iTunes folder, select properties, unselect Read-only. So I did and received the message, "You will need to provide administrator permission to change these attributes, click continue or cancel. I clicked continue. It ran "applying attributes" and then I clicked ok. But iTunes still gives me the same message that the file is locked. And then when I back into properties the read-only selected again.

Please tell me how to resolve this problem.

Thank you!

Hi Shawn,

I attempted to use the manual way of taking ownership (via command prompt). How do I find the Full Path of the File for iTunes? The file path name is not shown.

By the way, under properties, then security - it says I have full control. So is the take ownership still necessary?

Thanks for your felp.

480ocean:

Finding Path:

Open a new Notepad document. Go to your iTunes file, hold down the Shift
key and right-click the iTunes file, then click Copy as Path. Go to the new
document and right-click it, then click Paste. This should show you the Full
Path.


Ardneh