Niroshan Rajadurai

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How to fix a locked iTunes Library

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From time to time iTunes has an error “The iTunesLibrary file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file”. this can be very frustrating, as there appears to be no simple way to fix the error.

Locked iTunes

There is actually a simple way to fix this error.

Step 1: Launch Terminal

Step 2: Change directory to ~/Music/iTunes ('cd ~/Music/iTunes')

Step 3: delete the file sentinal that is located in this directory ('rm sentinal')

Now you should be able to relaunch iTunes and have it start correctly


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