ITunes application could not be opened. error 13008

I've got a 500GB USB3 drive that has an iTunes library on it and that's all it has on it.
I've attached the drive to a Negear R6300 router that has a USB port for attaching a network drive.
ReadyShare sees it and I can mount it as a Volume that shows up in the finder.
I can open the library directory in the finder and play songs manually..
But when I option-launch iTunes, and am asked to locate the library I wish to open, I navigate to the shared volume and select the directory containing the library. I then get the following error and when I click OK, iTunes quits.
"The iTunes application could not be opened, An unknown error occurred (13008)
I'm lost at this point.

I finally found a solution for this.
The external drive was formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
I reformatted the drive as FAT32 and now I am able to access my iTunes library without any isseus from the Netgear R63000 ReadyShare volume.
Yay!

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this i had to reinstall a few programs along the way.
Now unfortunatley itunes is not being co-operative,
ive uninstalled it and then reinstalled with no
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and tries to open up i get this message 'The itunes
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The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occured (-50).
I get this when i click on the icon on the dock.
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Message was edited by: itsmesunny
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I feel for you -
When I installed the 8.0.1 patch on my iMac, I noticed that iTunes quit working correctly after importing some new tracks. It would not quit. I had to force quit but then it would not open correctly the next time and it would not quit. From that point on, my computer went down hill. When I installed the latest security patch and executed a reboot, the system would not come up. I used my 10.5 DVD and repaired permissions, etc. Nothing worked. I booted off my backup drive and everything works fine.
Even on my backup drive iTunes will not come up. I don't get an error but the Dock icon says "Application Not Responding". I renamed the iTunes folder and it created a new one on initial startup but it just hangs. I deleted iTunes, rebooted, re-installed iTunes and have the same thing.
Tonight I experienced the same issue with iTunes not quitting on my MacBook Pro !

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Hi
I opened Itunes and got this error message exactly as it appears here. "The Itunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occured (130104)"
Could someone help me get my itunes back to normal.
Its probably a simple problem, but I haven't done anything (that i know of) that could have caused this. I have just been using my Macbook as i normally use it.
It would be interesting to find out why this happened as well.
Thanks in advance!

I feel for you -
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