Itunes wont save library

I have downloaded the newest version of Itunes and when reopened my music library and all other stuff is gone. How do I keep the library?

Oh and I also tried to airdrop by ziping the music files and also tried importing them to Quicktime then sending through airdrop. Someone MUST have experienced this before please help its frustrating me to no end and I'm going away in a few days and want some tunes to play on my new macbook pro

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Itunes cannot save library error -50

This error has been occurring for at least 2 years. I don't see anything in the community that has ever fixed this and I am now slowly moving to Spotify. I have over 400k songs and this itunes error continues to pop up any time that I search, go to the itunes store, make a playlist, add music... pretty much when I do anything. It is extremely frustrating. If I shut itunes down immediately after the error occurs, my changes will sometimes be saved. This happens about 50% of the time and takes approximately 27 seconds for the saving itunes library window to pop up. The rest of the time any changes are lost.
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When I clear the itunes store cache and reset warnings it lock up itunes and I have to kill it with Windows task manager
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Thanks Pedro,
I have seen this article. Since the error occurs mostly when I am just in itunes adding music or listening, I didn't do any of the things that were mentioned. This time I shut off Windows Firewall and Turned Off Norton Anti Virus. The problem still occurred.
I have a workaround for adding files that is working sort of:
When adding files they must finish adding in under 1 minute.
At 1:04 to 1:43 the -50 error occurs. If I close the error and then close itunes immediately, 25-27 seconds later it will save the changes.
I then reopen itunes and have access with my updated library until the error occurs again.
Going to the itunes store then coming back to the library whether I buy anything or not will generate an error. I buy my digital music from Amazon now because of this.
I don't think that this problem will ever be fixed until Apple dedicates the necessary resources to fix this. It is a pervavsive issue that has been going on for years.

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Same issue here. Running Windows Vista Home Premium Edition and newest version of iTunes. Normally happens when I am ripping a CD into iTunes and by chance multi task or the screen saver kicks in.
What ***** is if you walk away while ripping a CD(because it takes 3 times as long in iTunes vs any other ripper), and it will halt your ripping until you click "ok". I have not tried the "dont tell me again" check box just in case it is a problem I need to know about. This happened about 2 or 3 days after upgrading to Vista and I got an empty library the next time I opened the library. Somehow it got corrupted. Luckily I back up the xml file and just restored that one file from last back up.
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hi Blizzo!
good gracious. you're only the 4th -1450 i've ever seen reported. but we have some leads on the various things that might cause it. you may want to check the cabling inside your PC, and also check to see if you've got overly aggressive script blocking going on with your antivirus programs. see (view all):
Jim Lai, "Ideas for workaround? Unknown error -1450" #10, 08:35am Nov 3, 2005 CDT
keep us posted.
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Quit iTunes if that error message is showing. Now hold down your Shift key, and then open iTunes. (Keep holding down the shift key while iTunes is opening.)
You should see a dialog asking you if you want to choose or create a library, as per the following screenshot:
Click "Choose Library ..."
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Downloaded new version of itunes lost my library now itunes won't save my library have to install my library everytime i turn computer off itunes store will not open either have tried a few ways to solve problem from community members nothing works

downloaded new version of itunes lost my library now itunes won't save my library have to install it everytime i turn my computer off itunes store won't open either with almost 16,000 songs this is getting unbearable if someone wants to download new version it's a nightmare

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