ITunes will not shut itself down

After I click the X in the upper right corner or after file-> close, iTunes won't shut down. I already tried to remove and reinstall iTunes but I ended up with the same problem.... Does anyone have an idea about how to solve this problem?

Some people have found removing/disabling bonjour fixes this problem.
There is an article about what bonjour does, and also how to disable bonjour as a test:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306304
If you don't need bonjour, you can simply remove it with add/remove programs. That's what I've done.

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My itunes will not shut down when I close it out. The itunes ball will bounce up and down and reopen itself.
I am running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and this has started in the last 3 weeks.
I thought it was my blackberry software and had that removed. It has continued afterwards.
I do have all of my music on an external hard drive.
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Thanks wjosten I have read that and all the links in it. I did finally get it to work. I downloaded iTunes and reinstalled it. Now the one computer I wanted it to work with is OK.

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Hi jkherman.
I am having a similar problem. I shut down iTunes and then shut off my computer (MBP 13", 2.9 GHz i7, OS X 10.9).
When I reboot, iTunes appears to be running, however the window is not visible, but the icon is lit from underneath in my dock and iTunes is running when I check the Activity Monitor.
Also, it will not shut down from the dock icon. I need to go into Force Quit to shut it down.
Any ideas?
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When you shut iTunes down, it has to write its database out to disk. This takes time. If you have an overzealous anti-virus program, it can take a looooong time. Try disabling your anti-virus temporarily and seeing if it doesn't take quite so long. If that works, then look in the anti-virus program to see if you can set an exception for *.ITL and *.XML (and maybe even *.TMP) files, so it won't try to scan them so much.

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You can force quit a shut down by holding the power button for a extended amount, say ~10 sec or so.
The try resetting the SMC http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

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Hi,
i have exactely the same problem.
After the update to v10.5.3 iTunes isn't shutting down anymore. I have this error on various Windows versions (XP SP3, Win7 x86, Win7 x64.
On my private Notebook v10.5.2.11 still works! I won't update iTunes there - not even for a test .
/Tom

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Every time I run itunes 10, in this case 10.6.1.7 but for all iTunes in the past year or more - it will not shut down and stay shut down.
some suggest turning off "default player for audio" -- nice suggestion, but I do that and iTunes messages that I don't have privileges (I'm the administrator).
I turn off Bonjour -- itunes complains, but shuts down only to startup again.
I am NOT sharing music with other computers.
So the cryptic "don't have privileges" -- anyone know what Apple is looking for in this restriction?
Can't uncheck "default music player" -- anyone have a clue as to why not ?
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Jeff

The idea of a 3rd party unrelated app didn't seem reasonable, but in Windows, I brought up the the Windows Task Manager (similar to MacBook Activity Monitor) and started "ENDING" the tasks that seemed to be unrelated to the system but used for certain applications.
When I stopped a task related to my Linksys Music Bridge (I was using Airlink-101 music bridge tools to access the bridge) this allowed iTunes to start and stop without automatically restarting.
On XP, the task was "CMFLYWAV" not sure why it's called that, but I now use Bluetooth to send audio to my HiFi using a Logitech Speaker Adapter that works great, and doesn't cause problems for iTunes.
There are probably other unessential tasks running on those machine that still have this "won't shut down" problem.
Thanks for the hint, but I was heading down that road as the next step, assuming something else was forcing iTunes to stay active. But I would not have expected it to be a network speaker driver as it was in my case.
Jeff

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My computer just shut itself down and upon restarting
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This Apple article has some possible solutions.
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I shut down when an upgrade was taking too long yesterday, now Itunes will not open today

I shut down when an upgrade was taking too long yesterday, now Itunes will not open today

Hello James,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
From what you are describing, I have 2 recommendations. First, troubleshoot for 3rd party plugins that may be causing an issue after the interrupted update:
iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3430
If the issue persists after followign the article, I would next download iTunes from the download page, and install it.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Take care,
Sterling

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I cannot shut down my mac, receiving error stating Itunes not allowing to quit.
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HELP

Hi, Tom. I got an email from Mac Fixit, with the suggestions that often the cause of this problem is either permissions or too many systems floating about. The responder told me to go all the way back to the beginning, archive and clean install 10.4., which he says should have been recommended to everyone, and then rebuild to where we are now. I asked about saving preferences, keychains, serial numbers, logins, etc., and he said that would be a problem with at least some software which stores such information in invisible files in obscure parts of the computer. The implication was that if I knew how to nip in and out of terminal, I could retrieve and replace everything I wanted from the Archived Old System. Of course I do not have anything like that expertise; and finding all my email receipts for purchased and installed software is going to be extremely hard. I'm hoping someone else joins this thread who can tell me how to do these things -- assuming this is the only way to fix the situation. Incidentally, how did you zap the PRAM? Thank you. Charles

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My Mac Book Pro 15", 2.33 GHz, 3 GB memory - runninfg Mac OS X 10.4.11 WILL NOT SHUT DOWN UNLESS FORCED! HELP!!!
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Have you ever waited and let it do it's thing? I was ready to force mine to quit the other day after waiting 2-3 minutes, and all of sudden, it shut down. I restarted it and then shut it down again. This time it was normal.
Try this yet before doing an Archive and Install.
1. Boot from your system CD, run Disk First Aid from your Disk Utility and repair your permissions.
2. Use a utility like Onyx to clean your system cache out, including your kernel cache. The computer will restart slow right after that, but I keep rebooting the computer about 3 times in a row, and I'm back up to speed.
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New Macbook Pro will not shut down.

Hi,
So I just got a new Macbook Pro four days ago from the Apple store and I'm already running into a little bit of trouble, that being my macbook will not shut down. Once I open the shut down window, the normal countdown that comes with it usually will not appear and I am incapable of clicking the shut down button. I have not downloaded anything onto my mac besides Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flashplayer, and a pdf document of my receipt from the apple store. I have burned some of my music CDs into itunes and browsed the web (nothing fishy; just some shopping, movie streaming from netflix and youtube, and reading articles online published by universities). Should I take the computer to the Apple store or is this something I can fix on my own?
Thanks so much

If I were you I'd take it back to the Apple store and let someone at the Genius Bar take a look at it. The worst case is you made an extra trip, but at least this way you can exchange it immediately if there's a problem. You only have a 14 day window for this, might as well take advantage of it.
The only other thing I can suggest is to open the Force Quit option from the Apple icon in the upper left corner. See if there are any apps that show Not Responding. If there are any like that, force quit them then try to shut down.

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