ITunes Directory Problem

I recently installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on to my laptop. After the install I can't open itunes. Now, I uninstalled service pack 1 and uninstalled Quicktime and iTunes. Now, after downloading the newest version of iTunes...it seems I have a directory problem.
The error msg reads: An error occurred while attempting to create the directory: C:\ProgramData\Apple Computer\Installer Cache\QuickTime 7.50.61.0
It was also saying the same thing about iTunes directory. I talked to people from apple and microsoft...nobody has an answer. I need help!
Thanks in Advance,
Adam

I agree that this is a huge problem. If the network directory isn't immediately found, iTunes reverts to its default. There may be other conditions under which this happens as well because it sometimes seems to occur even when the network drive should be visible. It causes huge headaches. My wife wants me to nix the network drive and just put all our music on our laptop--which is not something we should have to do in this year of 2007. They need to fix this. iTunes made my wife cry.

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I received an email from iTunes informing me that my feed:
http://www.mevio.com/feeds/d4emixtape.xml
Had been removed from the iTunes directory because the feed had some sort of technical issue. I've checked the feed a couple of ways including using Feed Validator and all seems to be working ok.
I tried to resubmit the feed, but I get an 'It appears the feed had already been submitted' error.
There is a duplicate feed that was being used from a different server (Odeo), but I stopped using that about four years ago. I have requested that feed to be removed.
I've contacted Apple Support to get the current feed back on iTunes, but that hasn't been any help.
Any advice on what I can do to get the my podcast feed back in iTunes?

Your feed appears to be technically OK. When the iTunes removes a podcast it usually says 'technical reasons', whatever the actual reason may be. One possible reason for removal is suspected copyright violations, and it's possible (I'm not saying this actually is the case) that they are concerned that your 'mixes' contain copyright material for which you don't have either the written permission of the copyright owner or a podcast licence from a recognized authority. As I say, I just mention that as a possibility to consider.
As to resubmitting: the title of your feed is 'D4E Hip Hop Mixtape' and there is already a podcast of that name showing in the Store (though it's looking for the feed which you have removed). Even if that one gets removed, you are still likely to get the same error - there appears to be a minor bug in the Store software which claims that a podcasts has already been submitted even if either the podcast hasn't been accepted previously or if one of the same name has been removed.
To get round this you need to make a small change in the title - a single character would probably do - and resubmit. You can always change the title back once it's been accepted.
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I have itunes directory on an external hard drive and want to direct a new installation of itunes on windows 8 to use it. I tried holding down ctrl and clicking itunes and after many tries got it to work one time. When I went back in later it had reverted

I have itunes directory on an external hard drive and want to direct a new installation of itunes on windows 8 to use it. I tried holding down ctrl and clicking itunes and after many tries got it to work one time. When I went back in later it had reverted back to a blank version of itunes and I cant get ctrl to work again. Any other ideas?

This is sometimes caused by a problem with the iTunesPrefs.xml file, normally found at C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml. Try dragging this to the desktop and trying again.
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I installed iTunes 7 yesterday (I have Windows XP) but had lots of trouble. My iTunes directory is on my 'J' drive, so I changed the iTunes folder location in Preferences to my J:\itunes directory. Before closing iTunes I checked all my settings and they were correct. After closing iTunes, I went back in to see something, and it displayed the Setup Assistant again. Once it, I saw my folder location was back to the default C drive. I went through the process a few times and it kept reverting back to the C drive, each time giving me the Setup Assistant. I finally wound up uninstalling it and reinstalling a saved copy of iTunes 6, only, unfortunately, I lost all my settings and play counts because iTunes 6 couldn't use the files updated by iTunes 7. Anyone else have this experience and/or come up with a solution?

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Dates are what I expected for the approx. last access of the external library in march and newly created c:...
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Hello,
I've been coming up empty handed finding a cure for my nagging issue with iTUnes directory: none of the episodes are showing up in the store listing for each of our particular feeds.
Here's a representative URL from our ten feeds we have registered in the iTUnes direcory:
http://www.lexy.com/feed/podcast?id=467
Furthermore, I ran another test and subscribed to one of the podcasts. Within the "Podcast" window in iTunes, it will only show one episode available - despite the fact that each of our 10 feeds have multiple episodes. Does anyone have an idea as to the cause and how to cure this?
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I can't find your podcast under the title given in the feed, 'All the Chocolate'. But in any case, you have a problem with your media files. For example, the URL given for the top episode is
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I've heard a number of the other posts on here with the same problem, but haven't found any solutions that have worked for me.
The podcast does work for me from the "subscribe to an iTunes" link, but I'm getting the error message when I try to submit it to the iTunes directory?
My feed url is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thejerkstorepodcast
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Your feed works OK whe subscribing manually in iTunes. However there are two errors which might possibly affect the Store (which can be a bit picky).
You are missing the opening declaration which should be in the very top line of the feed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
However FeedValidator has not flagged this as an error, so I don't know whether it matters or not.
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<enclosure url="http://robertorios.eu/podcast/EDMystic001-RR.m4a" length="72271043" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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Hi, I'm noticing large temp files appearing in my iTunes directory. These are created almost every 1-2 minutes during iTunes play and they are 40,938k in size. Currently, I'm deleting them.
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Hi--
So what I've noticed is that ever 7 seconds or so, while iTunes is running, a new file is created in the directory and it's the same size as the E-N-T-I-R-E library. If you try to delete all the files while iTunes is running, it won't let you since it's using one or more of the files.
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I have been attempting to submit my podcast to the Apple iTunes directory.
iTunes will not accept my podcast RSS feed.
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Apple provides a link to: FEED Validator (FOR ATOM AND RSS AND KML)
Here is Feed Validators response to this RSS feed.
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Can you help to resolve this problem, so that my RSS feed will be acceptable;e to iTunes.
Here is the feed: http://www.weare1.us/Energy_As_Medicine/Bruce_Burger/Bruce_Burger.html
Thanks, Bruce

The Server Tech Support helped to create a MIME to solve this problem but Apple is still not accepting the feed & FEED Validator feedback is:
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FOR ATOM AND RSS AND KML
http://www.weare1.us/Energy_As_Medicine/Bruce_Burger/Bruce_Burger.html
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line 23, column 45: Implausible date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:05:12 -0700 [help]      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:05:12 -0700</pubDate>
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line 36, column 43: Problematical RFC 822 date-time value: Sat, 1 Jan 11 14:52:58 -0800 (3 occurrences) [help]      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jan 11 14:52:58 -0800</pubDate>
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line 71, column 2: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help] </channel>
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line 71, column 2: Missing recommended iTunes channel element: itunes:category [help] </channel>
^
line 71, column 2: The recommended <itunes:email> element is missing [help] </channel>
^
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http://www.weare1.us/Energy_As_Medicine/Bruce_Burger/Bruce_Burger.html
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Hey Everyone,
Late Night Library has been releasing podcasts through iTunes for 3 years, but two months ago our newest podcasts stopped appearing in our iTunes directory, and this past week, iTunes didn't release our latest shows to subscribers at all! We loaded one of these shows 72 hours ago.
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And welcome to Apple Discussions!
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Dell Inc. Dell DXP051
iTunes 6.0.1.3
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0), drvmcdb (1.0.0.1), sscdbhk5 (1.0.0.1),
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IDE\DiskARRAY1.0.00_U, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskApple__iPod___________1.62, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericSTORAGE_DEVICE_9317, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericSTORAGE_DEVICE_9317, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericSTORAGE_DEVICE_9317, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericSTORAGE_DEVICE_9317, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskHP_____PSC_2350_______1.00, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomHL-DT-STCD-RW_GCE-8487B________________F109___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomPHILIPSDVD+-RW_DVD8701_________________5D24___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
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Drive is empty.
F: PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8701, Rev 5D24
Audio CD in drive.
Found 15 songs on CD, playing time 75:07 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 05:36:43
Track 3, start time 10:01:71
Track 4, start time 14:56:47
Track 5, start time 19:51:28
Track 6, start time 24:55:64
Track 7, start time 30:00:58
Track 8, start time 35:09:59
Track 9, start time 39:59:28
Track 10, start time 45:29:17
Track 11, start time 50:01:68
Track 12, start time 55:10:44
Track 13, start time 59:51:18
Track 14, start time 64:40:65
Track 15, start time 69:36:24
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 12 16 24 32 40 48.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 12.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 12.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 12.
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Dell XPS 400 Windows XP Pro 2.73 GHz processor, 1024 RAM
Dell XPS 400 Windows XP Pro 2.73 GHz processor, 1024 RAM
Dell XPS 400 Windows XP Pro 2.73 GHz processor, 1024 RAM

Well, thanks for all the help, folks.
After playing around with every permutation I could think of under preferences\advanced\importing, in desparation (because the problem kept getting worse - to the point that I couldn't import any joined tracks at all) I allowed a version update to 6.0.4.2.
No more problem.

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I want iTunes to reconstruct its index of my music.
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