Itunes library cannot be saved. An unknown error has occured. (-50)

This box has been coming up for months.  I usually don't have itunes up enough to bother me, but lately I have been using it more and every 30 seconds to a minute I have to clear out this box or they stack up.  How do I get itunes to save the library again?

I also tried deleting the .itl and .xml files.  They rebuilt but the problem still occurs.  I am on a network but all of these files are on my workstation tower.

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