Copying failed because you don't have permissions to change your iTunes me-
This is what it says: Copying failed because you don't have permissions to change your itunes media folder or a folder within it
I'm using iTunes media consolidation procedure to copy all media files from the existing folder on an external Lacie 180 GB firewire 400 to an external Hitachi duo pro 2TB firewire 400 that has a raid feature which is switch to 1 (essentially it does 2 copies on both disks at the same time)
It won't even copy a single file. I've tried to copy other stuff from the internal hard disk to the new 2TB disk and copies fine (5GB folder full of software). It only does this with iTunes.
I did what you suggested on all three folders: The main Music folder on the Mac hard disk, on the iTunes folder on the external 160GB Hard drive which contains the current media content and on the new 2TB hard disk on which I created a new media folder. I selected permission for myself which were already read+write and chose the apply to enclosed items on all three folders. I then changed the permission for others to read+write and applied to enclose items also an all three folders.
But it didn't solve anything.
Here's what happens: I choose the new directory in iTunes preferences (the media folder on the 2TB disk) I then go to File > Library > Organize Library and then choose Consolidate files. A window pops up and says copying "filename" with a progression bar underneath but the filename never changes. Instead the beachball appears when the mouse pointer hoovers over iTunes. Upon pressing the iTunes icon in the Dock it says that iTunes is not responding. At this point there's 2 different ways:
A - If I then force quit iTunes the iTunes window disappears but the application does not close. When I want to eject the 2TB disk it says it's being used by another application. Only when I cut the power to the 2TB disk does iTunes fully close. A window then pops up and says that the drive was not put away properly etc.
B - if I cut the power to the drive without force quitting iTunes, a window appears with the said: "Copying failed because you don't have permissions to change iTunes media folders etc." iTunes remains open and fully functional.
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I did what you suggested on all three folders: The main Music folder on the Mac hard disk, on the iTunes folder on the external 160GB Hard drive which contains the current media content and on the new 2TB hard disk on which I created a new media folder. I selected permission for myself which were already read+write and chose the apply to enclosed items on all three folders. I then changed the permission for others to read+write and applied to enclose items also an all three folders.
But it didn't solve anything.
Here's what happens: I choose the new directory in iTunes preferences (the media folder on the 2TB disk) I then go to File > Library > Organize Library and then choose Consolidate files. A window pops up and says copying "filename" with a progression bar underneath but the filename never changes. Instead the beachball appears when the mouse pointer hoovers over iTunes. Upon pressing the iTunes icon in the Dock it says that iTunes is not responding. At this point there's 2 different ways:
A - If I then force quit iTunes the iTunes window disappears but the application does not close. When I want to eject the 2TB disk it says it's being used by another application. Only when I cut the power to the 2TB disk does iTunes fully close. A window then pops up and says that the drive was not put away properly etc.
B - if I cut the power to the drive without force quitting iTunes, a window appears with the said: "Copying failed because you don't have permissions to change iTunes media folders etc." iTunes remains open and fully functional. -
"copying failed because you don't have permissions..." Windows 7?
First off, just so everyone doesn't point me to it, I saw this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2466282?start=0&tstart=0
But my question has to do with Windows.
I had a Lenovo T60 laptop running Windows 7 with a 500GB HD. My iTunes library is nearly 460GB so I had it on an external drive. I recently took an older PC, dropped in 8GB of ram and a 1TB internal drive running Windows 7 64bit. I successfully moved the iTunes library to the new machine and ran it from the external HD. It isn't a beast of a machine by any means, but I figured since I have enough space on the internal drive, I'd move my iTunes library to it thinking it would help performance.
So I followed the instructions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
since that has info about consolidation and consolidated the library. Before I started, I let iTunes reorganize my media folder in the consolidate tab under File--> Library. Since it is such a huge library, I set it up and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, the 'Copying failed' message was on my screen. Here is the kicker, and why I decided to post here: of the 460GB, over 200GB transferred just fine. It appears that just the music moved and that my video is all still on the external HD. I read the thread above and tried to figure out how to fix the permissions in Windows. I've set the permissions correctly in BOTH folders (the internal and external HD) and applied the changes to all of the files and folders below. After that, I ran it the consolidation again thinking it would pull the rest of the files but it didn't. The good news is that my iTunes library works and appears just fine: no missing media and performance has increased since many of the files are indexed on the internal drive.
Obviously the easiest way to do this is to figure out the permissions but at this point I don't think there is anything else to do on that front. The only thing left is to make the files no longer 'Read only' in the media folder and I'm terrified of doing that given the data that's in there. If there isn't an easy fix for the permissions, is there an easy way to:
1. Identify what hasn't been moved
2. Move it without making dupes in the collection.
3. Do the above while leaving a copy on the external HD as backup.
Even if I can't leave the files on the external HD, I just want to get it all in one place without spending a month removing duplicate files from the collection. I just really, really don't want to try this again fresh since almost half of it is already in place perfectly. Oh and I'm running iTunes 11. Thanks in advance for all of your help.I haven't completely solved this, but I've made some headway.
Two things. First is that I figured out why the TV Shows didn't transfer, or at least I think I did: there was no "TV Shows" folder on my C: drive. So, rather than create a new folder called 'TV Shows' I found a TV show that I only have one episode of, right clicked on it and selected 'Show in WIndows Explorer.' I dragged and dropped it from the folder location to iTunes. I figured this way, if it duped in the Library, I could erase it. At first it looked like nothing happened. Then a while later I checked it and lo and behold, it was on the C: drive and there was a "TV Shows" folder. But, I tried to select 'Consolidate Library' and still got the message above.
Second is that I never noticed this before, but if you right click on a file you can select 'Cosolidate File.' Now, how this is different than consolidating your entire library is anyones guess as I can't seem to find any information on it. But I figured 'What the heck?' and tried it with my TV Shows. That worked, but I still got the message above after an unknown number copied. So now I am going to every bit of media on my left tab (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, Apps, Tones), selecting them all, right clicking and consolidating them. This seems to work for the vast majority of the files. However, I still have issues with some files not moving. Also, I'm finding a lot of the missing files from the original consolidation.
In any case, even though I'm getting closer to a solution, I haven't been able to fully solve it, nor do I understand exactly what the difference is between the two Consolidate options are. Any feedback is appreciated. -
"You don't have write access for your iTunes Media folder..."
My daughter is trying to import CD's into her library. Some work fine but most won't load and she gets a message stating "You don't have write access for your iTunes Media folder or a folder within it. To change permissions, select your iTunes Media folder in the Finder, and choose File>Get Info."
Following those directions the iTunes Info window appears and at the bottom her user name appears with the privilege as Read and Write. Clicking on the little gear icon below we select Apply to Enclosed Items. A message pops up stating "Are you sure you want to apply the selected owner, group and permissions to all the enclosed items?" Clicking ok a status bar pops up showing "Applying permissions to iTunes".
No changes occur in the issue we're having. This only occurs on her user.If you have problems importing CDs with iTunes because of write access errors, you can do the following to reset the permissions to the Music folder for your user/s where the iTunes subfolders are typically located:
Open Finder
Macintosh HD
Users
Open the folder for your User
Music
Right click > Get Info
Bottom right hand side, unlock the padlock, entering your user's password
Under Sharing & Permissions, ensure all relevant users have Read & Write, including Staff
Then, click on the main user (you), then go to lower left hand side, click on the settings cog, and press Apply to enclosed items. -
PLEASE HELP. you don't have write access for your itunes media folder or a folder within it
I am using Windows 7. If it makes a difference, my OS and important programs run on an SSD, while eveyrthing else is on a larger HDD. For awhile now I have had this problem anytime I try to do things in iTunes like import a CD, or a blu-ray digital copy. It gives me this error "you don't have write access for your itunes media folder or a folder within it windows 7." I have read tons of articles on how to change file permissions in windows and give full control and all that stuff. I swear I have read and tried anything remotely close to a solution for my issue, and it just wont fix it. Anyone have any out of the box ideas aside from changing permissions on the iTunes folder?
Also, when I make a new user account on my PC, the fresh iTunes on that account works just fine. So I don't know whats going on. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!clsepulveda wrote:
! I've gone to the itunes folder and found where it says read and write and I don't understand what the problem is.
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Using Network share io try to copy over my Windows files to the desktop of my iMac which I have done many times before successfully and now I get a message
reading "Items can’t be copied to “Desktop” because you don’t have permission to read them."
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I can not delete an email I get a message218130.emlx” couldn’t be copied because you don’t have permission to access “Messages”
Actually, the Finder solution did not work for me, but here's what did:
Quit Mail (for safety's sake).
Open Terminal (it's in Utilities folder usually, but since I updated to ML it's in a folder called Other for some reason)
Once Terminal is open, you'll want to login as ROOT. You do this as follows:
Type
sudo -i
Then hit Enter/Return. You'll be promoted for your system password. Hopefully you'll remember it. Enter your password then hit Enter/Return.
You'll then be at what's known as a root prompt.
At this point BE VERY CAREFUL. You have the ability at this point to completely destroy your machine beyond repair. Only type what I list below:
To find the folder that contains the email message you'll need to type the following:
find . -name "218130.emlx"
Hit Enter/Return
This will take a minute or two but what should appear in the list of other items that appear is something along the lines of the following (it won't be exactly this but will look LIKE this) I've replaced some personally identifying info:
./Users/yourname/Library/Mail/V2/POP-youremailaddress@yourmailserver/INBOX.mbox/ 0355DF0D-5E99-4798-B79E-48D71E68AF34/Data/3/2/Messages/23219.emlx
This line describes the location of the offending email. You know what to put yourself into this directory:
cd /Users/yourname/Library/Mail/V2/POP-youremailaddress@yourmailserver/INBOX.mbox/0 355DF0D-5E99-4798-B79E-48D71E68AF34/Data/3/2/Messages/
Hit Enter/Return
Notice, I left of the name of the actual email address. You'll need to be sure you type the location EXACTLY or this won't work. You want to be in the Messages folder. You'll know you're there because your Terminal prompt will look something like this:
Your Name - iMac:Messages
Then just to be sure you're in the right place, type
ls
Hit Enter/Return
You should then see something like this:
iMac:Messages root# ls
23013.emlx 23096.emlx 23100.emlx 23156.emlx 23210.emlx 23213.emlx 218130.emlx
You'll see the offending message. Now, you delete ONLY this message. Type:
rm -f 218130.emlx
That's RM at the start above. You'll need to type it in lower case. Be sure that's all you type.
Hit Enter/Return
You'll should be disappointed at the results because it will look like nothing happened. You can hit ls and Enter/Return one more time and the offending file should be gone.
EXIT TERMINAL. DO NOT TYPE ANYTHING ELSE. DO NOT "POKE AROUND". THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO EXPLORE. SERIOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE CAN BE CAUSED FROM HERE. EXIT TERMINAL NOW.
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That's unlikely. You would have had to save a document into another user's account and be trying to work on it - directly from their account.
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Frequently I work my macbook (10.7.3) in the terminal as root. I seems like files that owned by root are not eligable for restore via time machine by the system administrator. Is there a way to operate time machine as root? Or is there a way to grant root rights to the user account designated as administrator?
Specifically, the time machine copy dialog reports "The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access [filename]. For example, in one case case, it is .gitignore.In post https://discussions.apple.com/message/9945786#9945786 Scott T. states that "time machine always runs as root.", I take that to mean that time machine will have rights to copy all files, regardless of the owner.
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The operation can't be completed because you don't have the necessary permission.
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First of all why are all the files I create "Read only" for "staff" and "everyone" in first place?
Is the problem with my computer or with hers?
Is there a way for her to overide the permissions so I dont have to spend days or weeks going through every file I have created on my Mac?
Here is a screeen shot of one file:
Here is a Screen shot of the Folder on her MacMini that I drop files into:She needs to connect to the file server with your name and password. Then she'll have the same access you have. I assume that's what you want.
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So I'm on a totally fresh system, no TimeMachine restore or anything. I've installed all my apps from scratch - no prefrence file backups or anything. Everything is fresh.
Yesterday I tried to copy a file from one folder to another and I got the error "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items". Checked file permissions... repaired disk permissions... made sure I was logged in as admin (I only have one account)... everything looks good.
This is now happening when trying to copy any files anywhere on my machine... Very frustrating.
There's a couple strange side-effects I've noticed:
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- The little lock icon in the bottom right of the Get Info window doesn't do anything - I can't unlock it. I can still edit the permissions for the file/folder but I can't select the "apply to enclosed items..." option.
Does anybody know what the heck is going on?jsd2 wrote:
Try creating a new admin user account, logging into it, and then creating some new items on the Desktop and elsewhere. Does the same thing happen there?
Ok the strangeness continues!
I created a new "TestAdmin" account, but it doesn't show up in the Users & Groups prefrences sidebar... The /Users/testadmin folder was created, but the account doesn't show up in the prefrences or login window...
I tried a reboot to see if the account would show up and it still doesnt.... However after the reboot I am now able to copy files again!
I'm paranoid that the problem will show up again since I have no idea what fixed it. I tried rebooting previously after repairing permissions which didn't solve the issue so it's not like I haven't rebooted since it started.
And now I have the issue of not being able to create user accounts.
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Hello this week I'm unable to open any pdf's with preview, when I select to open a window opens up with message "file couldn't be opened because you don't have permission to view it" none of the pdf's have any security thanks if you can assist
Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
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Select
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The operations can't be completed because you don't have the necessary permission
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I already 'Repaired Permissions' and 'Repaired Disk' multiple times in Safe Mode and also in Utility mode (not sure what to call it, the mode where you go when you are installing the OS).
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