Problem consolidating to NAS "Copying Music Failed"

Can someone offer advice on how to solve a problem with iTunes for Windows? I get an error message when I consolidate. Error is "Copying Music failed. The disk could not read from or written to". I have a laptop and the HD is full. I bought an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ 1TB. I have copied files to the NAS without any problem. I followed Apple's Written Help Instructions to "Moving your ITunes folder". I followed the instructions and got the error above "Copying Music Failed...". Preferences->Advanced..Itunes Music Folder Location...change...<\\NAS..
Itunes Music>. Also enabled Keep Itunes Music folder organized. Disabled Copy Files to Itunes Music..... Then went to Menu Advanced->Consolidate Library. I then get the error "Copying Music failed. The disk could not read from or written to". The NAS from Infrant was simple to install on my home LAN. There must be something simple that I am missing. The NAS was easy to install. And I have been transferring Word/Excel/etc files like crazy to the NAS to store. I cannot figure out why the instructions from Apple do not work? I cannot figure out why the consolidate Library function fails. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have found with network storage that mapping a drive letter to a folder on the network storage drive works with iTunes. Couldn't get iTunes to access network storage without mapping drive.

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Has anyone else experienced this and knows how to fix it? I can't seem to find a fix for that error code.

I found this link about error numbers here ...
http://www.koders.com/c/fid53B3BE16088320EE31E67B12F901FE3FB9D1F480.aspx
DennisinChicago wrote:
I want to Consolidate ... I immediately get an error message that says "Copying Music failed. An unknown error occurred (-51).
Error # 51 means that the Buffalo Terastation NAS is unreachable on your local network.
RRutter wrote:
"Copying Music failed. An Unknown error occured (-48).
Error # 48 means that the "Address already in use". Is your External Hard Drive connected by Firewire or Ethernet?
... knows how to fix it?
Look at this Apple Article about how to Consolidate the iTunes Library ... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
If you follow the steps in this link I think that it should work. But first you must setup the Hard Drives as a 'Bootable GUID Partition Table' with 'Owners' & 'Journaling' Enabled in order to retain the iTunes users permissions.
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Error "COPYING MUSIC FAILED. The disk could not be read from or written to"

After following the procedurest to move the iTunes music, the computer started whirring away, happily copying and consolidating all the song files to the new target folder.
After copying 68gigs of 130gigs perfectly, it stopped dead and the following iTunes error message appeared:
"COPYING MUSIC FAILED. THE DISK COULD NOT BE READ FROM OR WRITTEN TO"
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I really need to consolidate this music file.
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OK I figured it out!
It was a dodgy file....I sorted the file folders by date, and as it turned out within the "compilations" folder there was a CD where only about half the tracks seemed to have been copied over. Could not have identified this simply from the time indicated on the finder folder sort, because there were several CDs copied over in the that same minute.
I went back to the original itunes folder, deleted all the files from that CD in itunes, then also deleted all those files from the original disk and the target disk.
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"Copying Music failed. The filename was too long or invalid."

I've been trying to 'consolidate library' inorder to get all my music held and managed under Itunes so I can delete it from other places on my computer & avoid holding multiple copies (in line with Chris CA's guidance in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2812666?start=0&tstart=0)
All goes well until I get to the 'consolidate library' step, it starts off copying files & seems to be going alright, then at some point I get the error message :"Copying Music failed. The filename was too long or invalid."
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Unconsolidated should now give you a much shorter list, presumably the difficult track will be either first or last in this list...
I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background. You'll probably have to disable the progress bar again.
It only works on files connected to iTunes that have identical tag info. If you're not certain it might pay to make sure first using iTunes Folder Watch to scan for files that are in the media folder but not in the library. It also has a "scan for dead tracks on startup" option with detects missing files.
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Copying Music failed. The disk could not be read from or written to.

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Thanks Katrina. Mapping the folder to a drive letter allowed iTunes to start copying the music across.
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Copying music failed, unknown error (-50)

Trying to move my library from one external hard drive to another external hard drive. Did it by going to Preferences-Advanced and changing the drive/folder location and then going to Advanced-Consolidate Library. All seemed to be going ok and then the process stopped (about 40% done) with the error "copying music failed. An unknown error has occurred (-50)". I've searched the forums and Google without luck. There was some mention of filenames. However, the songs with the longest pathname made it over to the new drive just fine. So it's not length. A quick check in iTunes using "GetInfo" showed some songs on the old drive and some on the new drive. At what point do these get updated in the consolidation process? As they are getting copied (one song at a time) or all songs before the copying process starts???
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hi usablues!
hmmmm. i've been seeing this particular kind of "anomalous" (-50) off and on since 4.9.
this is experimental. but we've been seeing different sorts of strange unknown error codes under similar circumstances when antivirus or antispyware is interfering with itunes' ability to read the library files.
... so ... can you get a consolidate to go through properly if you have your antivirus/antispyware switched off?
love, b

"Copying Music failed. The filename was too long or invalid." for Mac

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Hi,
I am trying to move all the music library to my new computer ( this is my 3rd time of changing my PC). I tried to consolidate the library... but the message was
Copying music failed , the file name was invalid or too long"
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To find out which file it was, look at where you were
copying them too and see which was the last file
copied - and then go back to your source, and go to
the next one - it should be that one.
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Duh.
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Copying music failed. The file name was invalid or too long.

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To find out which file it was, look at where you were
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BUMP
Yes, I just get that message. I don't see how I could investigate this problem.
I didn't mention that this happened when I was consolidating my library, not copying files to another computer.
In other words, I'm using a "normal" itunes procedure, itunes won't complete it, and won't tell me exactly why or how to figure out how to fix it...
Is there at least some easy way to tell which files were successfully copied to my itunes music folder so I can work on moving the uncopied files?
Can anybody help me?

"Copying Music Failed - File name invalid or too long." HELP!

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Well, aren't you lucky I signed in tonight? Sometimes you just have to be patient and wait until a person who might know an answer shows up.
I have had problems with Consolidate too, and getting that stupid error message when the file name was not too long.
The consolidate function starts copying things over by Date Added, with the older ones getting copied first. First in, first out.
What I finally had to do was look in Windows Explorer for the target (new) drive and see the last file that was successfully copied. Let's call it Carole King.
Then I went into iTunes and sorted by Date Added to see the file just AFTER the Carole King file. In my case, it was La Bohème and iTunes had filed it in the Compilations folder. I selected all the tracks and unchecked the Compilations box. This made iTunes move it out of the Compilations folder
The Consolidate worked after I moved that file.

"Copying Music Failed. An unknown error occurred (-69)"

Please help! I'm trying to move my iTunes library from my old laptop to a new laptop and I get the subject error message when I try to consolidate the library. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?
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Consolidate copies files from the source drive to the new location. Assuming that you haven't done anything else, your original music files should be intact at their original location.
When consolidate fails, it means there is something wrong with one or more music files. It may be a very long file name, but I think iTunes tells you that, or maybe corrupt file.
Are you able to tell at what stage consolidate failed, that might give you a clue to which file caused the problem.
This article contains a section on finding problem files *Check for content files with issues*:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421
How important are your counts, ratings and playlists to you? It would be easiest to start again by creating a new library.

Consolidate Problem. Copying files failed. The File name was invalid.

Hi to everyone,
My system is 10.5.8, iTunes 9.2.1 (4)
I tried to consolidate my iTunes library to an external HD. After about 100GB of copied music, I got the message : Copying files failed. The File name was invalid.
Now everytime I try again to consolidate, I get immediately this message. I am looking everywhere for a solution, and I only find the same problem for Windows iTunes users.
Actually I found very useful this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1708372,
which talks about with which order iTunes consolidates the media, so by digging a little in the folders to find which track has the problem and make the fix. It says that consolidate start copy the files by the date added order. So I can go in my new iTunes media folder and find the latest added track, then go back in iTunes, sort by date added the songs and locate the next song, to make the fix. However in my case, all previous and next songs (by date added), have been copied in the new locations.
I am stuck. I have a remaining 300GB of music to consolidate and dont know how to proceed.
Any help would be much appreciated..

Finaly, I managed to solve it by myself...,
following the help I found from the post of the thread I mentioned on my question...
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I am using itunes 10 and trying to consolidate my files. I keep getting the error "Copying files failed. The file name was invalid or too long". How can I indentify what file is causing this problem or resolve this issue?

I am using itunes 10 and trying to consolidate my files. I keep getting the error "Copying files failed. The file name was invalid or too long". How can I indentify what file is causing this problem or resolve this issue?

BUMP
Yes, I just get that message. I don't see how I could investigate this problem.
I didn't mention that this happened when I was consolidating my library, not copying files to another computer.
In other words, I'm using a "normal" itunes procedure, itunes won't complete it, and won't tell me exactly why or how to figure out how to fix it...
Is there at least some easy way to tell which files were successfully copied to my itunes music folder so I can work on moving the uncopied files?
Can anybody help me?

HT1751 Consolidating ITunes Library Failed - message received: "Copying files failed. The file name was invalid or too long" . Please help - how to i fix this issue?

I consulted your website for details on how to back up my ITunes Library on my PC-found the article very helpful-I reached step 7 - clicked ok and the following message came up: "Copying files failed. The file name was invalid or too long." Please can you help and advise what I should do or how to fix this issue. My pc operating system is Windows 7 Home Basic

You can select a group of tracks and consolidate from the right-click context menu. You coud try consolidating in batches, say all songs by artists beginning with A, then B, etc, then the other media types, until you can isolate a problem track and then try moving that by hand and fixing the broken link.
I also have two scripts that could help you, Unconsolidated and ConsolidateByMoving. The first can make a playlist of all unconsolidated tracks, the second can consolidate a selection of tracks by moving them instead of copying.
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