Error: "The phone is in use by another user of this computer"

Hi,
Itunes hung and had to be "force quit". When I started it again, I got the following message.
"The phone <phone name> is in use by another user of this computer"
I rebuild he iTunes libaray, but the message won't go away. Any ideas? I'm guessing there is a lock file somewhere.
thanks

1. You are thread-jacking. Kangdequan has an open question and adding unrelated questions to that, will not help him at all. Kangdequan, please see below.
2. There have been countless articles in the last few years explaining why some countries have iTunes music stores and others not. The main reason is something called copyright.
3. There is an Apple app store in the Philippines.
4. There are many other sources of music.
Kandequan. It may be that something has become corrupted, but I also see a problem in that the iPhone is only supposed to sync with one computer. Trying to sync with a second one will not work.
There are a number of things you may need to do now, but first decide which computer is to be the one that you sync with: the master, if you will.
Whichever one you decide on, you need to make sure that all files point to that and there is a process written up by a user "wjosten".
You may also need to follow the Apple suggestions for making iTunes recognise your device.

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