What Is iTunes Doing? 20 min. progress bar to write tags for 1 file?
What the heck is going on? I try to simply write info tags for one new movie conversion. I'm looking at at progress bar (??!!!) for twenty minutes now. What is itunes doing? This is beyond spooky.
ok, the writing tags to the video files thing I have seen before. I think in the end I switched to using a different program to convert videos, and it pretty much stopped happening. It puzzled me for a while, but after monkeying around with it I pretty much found it was a problem with the video file. If I had a problem with a certain file, then re-encoded it with different program, then the slow write to tags thing didn't happen. As for the hiccup playing video, that'll probably always happen to some extent. Is the usb drive idle before you are trying to play video off of it? Once itunes requests the video file from the drive it has to spin up the hard drive before it can play video from it. You could set your external drive to never spin down. Also check the firmware for the external drive, they often have updated firmware available for externals that no one ever checks on.
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What do I do if I get the message "The iTunes library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file" when I try to open up iTunes?
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Thanks in advance.Hello Geordie81,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
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[iTunes for Windows: How to make iTunes the default application for music and audio files in Windows Vista and Windows 7|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3202]
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Hi I have downloaded the latest iTune Software on Windows 7. I went to open the file and it won't execute, I small box keeps popping up with this message:-
"The iTunes library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file".
I have tried to change the permission but nothing happens. Can anyone please give help me or give me some advise how I can fix this problem.
Please email me at [email protected]
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