ITunes needs a new library

When I open iTunes a message appears telling me iTunes needs a new library and I either have to create a new one or choose an old one. I want to choose an old iTunes library but when I go to Music-iTunes-Previous iTunes Libraries and click the Library this message appears:
The file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.
How do I get iTunes working again/ How do I get permission to use my old iTunes library?

Hi there bwhong3614,
I would recommend taking a look at the information found in the article below if your iTunes library is empty after an update.
No content shows up in iTunes after updating
-Griff W.

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Been using iTunes as my music manager/player since 2003. Currently have about 5,000 songs which are a mix of selective CD song rips, iTunes purchases and Amazon Mp3 downloads. Lots of missing artwork, incomplete albums, wrong genres, etc. I use iTunes Match to sync across multiple Macs and iOS devices, including 3 Apple TVs. It all works OK, but I recently undertook a major project to re-rip all of my CDs/Box Sets in their entirety – about 20,000 tracks. I performed the new rips on a Mac Mini running Windows 7 in BootCamp using Roxio Creator to get a 'universal' Mp3 (256kbs) format and keep everything separate and apart from my current iTunes/Match libraries. Total library size came out around 80-85GB, saved on an external USB HDD.
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So I have gone back to my 8GB nano and needed to downsize my library so that the songs fit on.
I went through deleting songs and made sure that I clicked 'send to recycle bin' instead of save file.
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Go to 'My Music' and 'iTunes' and all the flipping songs are still there!
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Thank you for your reply, what I am trying to achieve is for my newly edited iTunes Library to be what is also stored on my computers hard drive - currently all the deleted songs are stored too (even though I clicked for them to be deleted from my computer).
I appreciate that I could have just created a smaller playlist but I actually wanted to get rid of music I don't listen to anymore.
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