ITunes takes long to close

I just noticed this after adding an Apple TV to my network. When closing iTunes, it takes like 10 seconds or more to close. If I choose File > Quit, and then File > Quit (twice) it will close as it should, but I have to do this twice.
I don't know if the Apple TV has anything to do with it. But right now I'm at work with my MacBook Pro with no Apple TV and it still closes slow. Any ideas?
Bryan

Well if it says it "all music/videos downloaded" than chances are it has, it's just iTunes was unable to add them to the library as you closed the application.
Checkout: My Documents>My Music>iTunes>iTunes Music> & find the *Chase Coy* folder, select all the songs & open with iTunes. if it contains digital album artwork, you can also add that file in iTunes: File>Add file to library, by locating the folder.

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Thanks for taking the time to respond to me!
Greatly appreciated... Deb

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Exception Offset:          0034a672
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I noticed my backups to increase quite a bit over the last few days. I also noticed so many posts on why are backups taking so long, what can I do (only solution given is to click x or modify so that backups are not done, etc). Well to answer all those that want the "real" answer, I decided to do a few minutes of research and share what I've learned. I have seen nothing at all on google or anywhere else about the recommendations I'm suggesting, but from my experience I think it will answer 99% of all the backup threads on this site.
All your backups are being stored in:
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\(Your Name)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
Vista: C:\Users\*Your User*\Appdata\Local\Apple Computer\
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
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So here is the solution....sort these files by date modified. My biggest single file was 29,582KB!! looked inside and it's the WeDict app. There are other files from WeDict, but obviously for me if I want fast backups I need to get rid of this app. A few other top files I found are awesome apps on the iphone that have awesome trailers, intro movies for games, etc. Well guess what, they backup every single game intro, trailer, etc. So for instance, the game tap tap tap has a few m4a songs....well every one of those m4a songs are encrypted and backed up EVERY TIME (apple backups up files that don't need to be backed up which would probably reduce backup times by at least 98% - for instance, intro movies don't need to be backed up, nor app songs, nor game instructions, etc because that information should be on itunes backed up separately when you install an app, not when you do backups and it should be smart enough to update that folder when a new version is out....and only do backups on files that can change like high scores in apps, notes, etc - bad programming #2).
So anyway, you can see which apps are taking the most amount of time. Obviously if you remove every app on your iphone, it will backup fast, but some of these apps are shockingly huge. Problem here is that you can have 1 file or 100 files associated with 1 app. You could have only 2 apps installed on your iphone and your backups could be slower than a person having 30 apps just because some apps take a ridiculous amount of more backup data and time and what makes this even worse is every part of the data is encrypted, which I will talk about below (which doesn't need to be). Only time that file is not going to get updated is if it's deleted from your iphone.
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As a developer with a computer engineering degree, to also make it even faster than what users were experiencing with backup times prior 2.0. They are obviously not tagging each portion that needs to be backed up individually. Lots of software companies do this to speed stuff up. For instance if you have Kaspersky antivirus with the defaults, the first scan will always take long, but every scan afterwords will be fast because instead of rescanning that file for a virus, it just checks to see if the checksum has changed and if so rescan that file, so most of the time the scan will happen fast unless there has been a period of time that you haven't done one that updates the checksums. They could do something very similar with this. So basically even if you changed a few things on your phone, the backup should be only a few seconds because only those few changes would be signaled to be rebacked up. (bad apple programming for backups #4). This process can make backups be from 98% faster to 99.98% faster....meaning having a backup only take 4 seconds even with 100 apps installed. Actually coding this one thing would make it extremely fast, but would take the most programming time. You can even make an algorithem where for the whole backup process it would just have to read one file that it would check checksums and then tell it to modify 1 or 2 other files and that's it as opposed to backing up (for me almost 5,000 files) some being several MB in size.
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I can only guess what the optimization tool did, so I won't. Duplicate desktop files would normally be bad, but please be a little more descriptive. Are there duplicate folders in your home folder? iTunes looks in a the iTunes folder in your Music folder which is in your home folder. Is that OK?
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Is the disk you got form your wife grey or black? Grey disks are intended for specific Macs, black ones will work on any Mac that meets the system requirements for the OS on the disk.
Installing a new internal HD in an eMac is not impossible, but it's going to take an hour or two if you've never done it. Also, make sure you don't get a SATA HD, as that won't work in your eMac. You'll need a plain old ATA, or PATA HD.
As for 10.4 or 10.5 - you'll want at least 1 GB of memory installed to get reasonable performance out of 10.5, and a 1GHz eMac may not be the best Mac for 10.5. 10.4 install disks are getting harder and more expensive to come by.
hth and post back with more info, someone will give you more info to think about.
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