"Locked" iTunes on desktop

For some reason, when I try to open iTunes on my Mac is says "locked" and I "dont have write access" or somesuch. It wont let me access iTunes at all.
Ive been using iTunes on this Mac for 2 years with no problem ... and have changed nothing. This problem literally developed out of the blue.
Any thoughts?

Navigate through Finder to ./Users/YourUserName/Music/iTunes
Open an Info window on that folder
Expand "Ownership & Permissions" as well as "Details" underneath.
Make sure that you can "Read & Write" then hit the "Apply to enclosed items..." button

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First off, WHY can't iTunes notify you that it can't find the designated iTunes Media Folder? It'll notify you about just about every single other bloody thing that happens in the computer?
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Third, is there an easy way to scan the library on my Mac HD and on the external HD to find out which files are missing from the external HD and need to be manually added to the library?
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Hi Jonathan, it annoyed the heck out of me too. Answers to your questions:
No idea, it’s probably trying to be “helpful”.
I don’t believe you can lock iTunes the way you want, but you CAN stop iTunes from running WITHOUT THE DRIVE YOU WANT I got sick of manually transferring songs when this happened to me too. In my case my library is on a network server (NAS). I wrote the following AppleScript to deal with the situation and it will work for any externally connected drive, network, USB, FireWire etc.
So to explain the script: I’m asking Terminal to list the directory contents of the iTunes Library folder on the external drive. If it can, it makes iTunes start. If it can’t (the “on error” bit), it beeps at you and displays a dialog box that tells you it cannot start. I then save the script as an App, and give it the same icon as iTunes has, but a different name (‘iTunes Custom Launcher” for example). Then I remove iTunes from the Dock and put my custom launcher in the Dock instead. Doing this means the only odd thing you will see is that when the launcher starts iTunes, there will seem to be two iTunes icons in the Dock, but only while iTunes is running.
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tell application "Terminal"
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quit
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do shell script “ls \"/Volumes/<disk or share name>/<folder>/<sub-folder…>iTunes Library\"”
If, like me, your iTunes Library folder is at the root of the external drive, you only need to replace <disk or share name> with the drive name and forget about the <folder>/<sub-folder…> bit. If you’re not sure what to do to the script let me know and we can do more Q&A to see exactly what you need to make the script look like.
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Remove iTunes from the Dock and add your new app.
For your question 3, I would just go into the music folders of whoever logs on to your mac and manually move whatever folders for artists/albums/songs are there; it should be the last time
Let me know if you need more help
Message was edited by: SilverSkyRat

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Dell Inc. Inspiron 531s
iTunes 10.1.0.56
QuickTime 7.6.8
FairPlay 1.10.14
Apple Application Support 1.4.1
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 3.3.0.69
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.52.0.0
Bonjour 2.0.4.0 (214.3)
Gracenote SDK 1.8.2.457
Gracenote MusicID 1.8.2.89
Gracenote Submit 1.8.2.123
Gracenote DSP 1.8.2.34
iTunes Serial Number EFACDE6C10CEC8C8
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The current local date and time is 2010-11-23 18:38:30.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
NVIDIA , NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
** External Plug-ins Information **
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: ##############
** Device Connectivity Tests **
iPodService 10.1.0.56 is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.1.0.56 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
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Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
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