Genius and large library seems like a no go.

I have a large library, slightly under 100k tracks,(yes in the music business and with thousands of cd's digitized over the last 8 years)and it seems that my genius, under Itunes 9, goes through the process and then as soon as it starts to send to Apple it tells me there is not enough memory - the apple store has an error. It was fine under version 8.x. Has anyone with a library that size or greater been successful in getting genius to function. BTW, aside from uninstalling, checking all settings, etc., I made a small library of about 1000 tracks and it was fine.

I had a similar problem because the external monitor was not properly identified. Some fooling around in the display properties finally allowed the monitor to be seen and then I could set the resolution differently then the internal monitor and clamshell worked fine, for hour and hours, even if the MBP went to sleep. Waking it with lid closed brought everything up on the external monitor.
Sorry but I can't remember exactly what I did. But it is my nature that if something isn't working the way I want it to I hit every button and or option in whatever screen I'm in until it starts work the way I want.
I do remember that originally there was only one windows open for display properties until I did something (???) and then there was 2 windows. One for the internal screen and one for the external. From there it was a piece of cake. Set different res and refresh rates (external is a older CRT).

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Hi,
White MacBook (late 2009)
8Gb RAM
I upgraded to Maverick and started to regret that decision since it felt like the laptop got slower. So I used my installation disk to downgrade again to Snow Leopard. I performed many software updates after installing Snow Leopard.
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Hi! To begin with, thank you for your time in reading my query... I am finding out that I am unique in having an iTunes library as large as mine: it is presently approximately 11Tb, spanning over 4x2TB and 1x3TB drives (5 drives total). I have over the course of the last 8-9 years been digitalizing and converting an extensive cd/dvd collection (with the intent of packing them all away into storage). The library is organized via iTunes Media Folder organization, and new items are copied into the media files: when one hard drive becomes full, I simply change the location to a new drive. This has worked well and have only had one challenge to date: when I moved from a PC to Mac, but I (or more accurately the library) survived the ordeal...!
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