Library is now locked??
I have just spent the weekend updating to Snow leopard and now finally now from iPhoto 08 to iPhoto 09. When I started up for iPhoto 09 for the first time, it tells me that the library is locked and I do not have permission.
I try to redirect the library (it is stored on an external drive) but it still tells me I do not have permission and quits.
Does anyone know how I can simply get back to how things used to be in iPhoto 08 and use the previous library I have stored!? Very frustrating...
Any ideas guys? Thanks.
That's frequently a sign of a damaged database.
So, the best option is to restore from the back up you made before upgrading.
Failing that: Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD
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User I/O 2,001,978 0.00 59,662 30 7.49
System I/O 564,771 0.00 8,069 14 2.11
Application 145,106 1.25 6,352 44 0.54
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Network 6,862,704 0.00 696 0 25.68
Configuration 3,858 3.71 141 37 0.01
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Event Waits %Time -outs Total Wait Time (s) Avg wait (ms) Waits /txn
library cache load lock 24,243 83.95 64,286 2652 0.09
db file sequential read 1,580,769 0.00 42,267 27 5.91
latch: library cache 53,013 0.00 29,194 551 0.20
db file scattered read 151,669 0.00 13,550 89 0.57
latch: shared pool 25,403 0.00 12,969 511 0.10
log file sync 176,671 0.37 4,528 26 0.66
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parse count (failures) 6,181 0.24 0.02
parse count (hard) 121,841 4.83 0.46
parse count (total) 5,937,336 235.22 22.21
parse time cpu 283,787 11.24 1.06
parse time elapsed 1,687,096 66.84 6.31 Latch Activity
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library cache pin 28,453,986 0.01 0.16 8 167 0.00
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Edited by: Neeraj.Bhatia2 on Jul 13, 2009 6:51 AMThanks Charles. I really appreciate your efforts to diagnose the issue.
I agree with you performance issue is caused by soft parsing, which can be solved by holding cursors (session_cached_cursors). It may be due to oversized shared pool, which is causing delay in searching child cursors.
My second thought is, there is large number of reloads, which can be due to under-sized shared pool, if invalidation activities are not going (CBO statistics collection, DDL etc), cursors are being flushed frequently.
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Namespace Get Requests Pct Miss Pin Requests Pct Miss Reloads Invalidations
BODY 225,345 0.76 4,965,541 0.15 5,533 0
CLUSTER 1,278 1.41 2,542 1.73 26 0
INDEX 5,982 9.31 13,922 7.35 258 0
SQL AREA 141,465 54.10 27,831,235 1.21 69,863 19,085 Latch Miss Sources
Latch Name Where NoWait Misses Sleeps Waiter Sleeps
library cache lock kgllkdl: child: no lock handle 0 8,250 5,792 Time Model Statistics
Statistic Name Time (s) % of DB Time
sql execute elapsed time 206,979.31 85.27
PL/SQL execution elapsed time 94,651.78 39.00
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parse time elapsed 22,635.47 9.33
inbound PL/SQL rpc elapsed time 14,763.48 6.08
hard parse elapsed time 14,136.77 5.82
connection management call elapsed time 1,625.07 0.67
PL/SQL compilation elapsed time 760.76 0.31
repeated bind elapsed time 664.81 0.27
hard parse (sharing criteria) elapsed time 500.11 0.21
Java execution elapsed time 252.95 0.10
failed parse elapsed time 167.23 0.07
hard parse (bind mismatch) elapsed time 124.11 0.05
sequence load elapsed time 23.34 0.01
DB time 242,720.12
background elapsed time 11,645.52
background cpu time 247.25 According to this DB CPU is 65% utilization (DB CPU + Background CPU / Total Available CPU seconds). While at the same time DB host was 95% utilized (confirmed from DBA_HIST_SYSMETRIC_SUMMARY).
Operating System Statistics
Statistic Total
BUSY_TIME 3,586,030
IDLE_TIME 1,545,064
IOWAIT_TIME 22,237
NICE_TIME 0
SYS_TIME 197,661
USER_TIME 3,319,452
LOAD 11
RSRC_MGR_CPU_WAIT_TIME 0
PHYSICAL_MEMORY_BYTES 867,180
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I cannot access iTunes from my deskyop. Worked great until a couple of days ago, then I now get the message that "The iTunes Library .itl is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." I have not turned on any parental controls on the desktop. I have reloaded iTunes several times. No luck. I've run virus scans several times. No luck. I've restarted & tuned off the computer several times. No luck. I've uninstalled iTunes then reinstalled several times. No luck. Any thoughts?
To solve this issue all I did was check to ensure that the file permissions were set as described by the earlier posts, followed by simply deleting the iTunes Library Genius.itdb file. Once the file was deleted I was able to open iTunes without difficulty. Note that I am running Windows 8. Hope this helps!
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Megan hello,
welcome to the Apple Discussions open the iTunes folder in your Music folder and select the iTunes 4 Music Library file... type cpmmand - D and this will duplicate the file... put the original file on the desktop and change the name of the duplicate to be the same as one you just moved ... double/click on this file after the name change... if all is okay you can trash the file on the desktop later..
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can anyobdy help?I had that problem too. I tried to remove iTunes from my computer and then download it again, but that did not make any difference. Then I tried polydorus' answer ("starting iTunes with the shift key held down, when asked to choose a library, navigate to your iTunes folder and choose iTunes Library.itl"), but that did not work either and that same message about the library being locked appeared again.
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When I try opening iTunes, I get the message:
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Try the suggestions in my post in this topic:
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i see you are on 10.3.9 and i am on 10.4.10 but i believe this should help you
in your username/Music/iTunes
right click and select get info
on the ownership and permissions area, make sure as owner and group your username is selected and that you have "read & write" for both of these sections. for others read only
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next restart in safe mode, by holding down on the shift key when it restarts until the apple and pinwheel grey screen appear.
the pinwheel spinner will spin for a while and the machine will take a while to startup
you will be requested to login with your password and make sure you are the admin user for the computer.
once in safe mode go to disk utility and repair disk permissions for Macintosh HD
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Get Info (command-I)
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Expand 'Details:'
You must read: "You can Read & Write"
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this may happen on external drives if:
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First Aid for external drive
Close iTunes
Unmount (eject) external drive the right way.
Mount drive again
Go to Workplace -> right click external drive -> choose "clean up" This will force the filesystem to rescan the file structure of the drive and rebuilding the file system table and journaling file.
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The system was not shoot down correct, e.g. "pulled the plug"
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First Aid for internal hard drive
Close iTunes
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