Moved to a new Mac. ITL file is locked!

Hi all

I recently made the switch from PC to Mac, (long).

My iTunes library was in a portable State on an external drive USB and all the media with her etc, having registered before the decommissioning of iTunes from my previous PC.

Today I plugged the USB drive in my new macbook pro. IM connected to iTunes, however you quit the program and held in 'Alt' before launching iTunes again for giving me the opportunity to select the. File ITL located on the USB key and reloading my library accordingly.

Now I am panicking.

Im getting the message that the. ITL file on the USB key is "locked or on a locked drive. This isn't a locked drive I can see the remaining files on this subject, but the. File ITL itself appears locked and I can not load.

Any ideas on how I can solve this problem will be minimal fuss?

My library is off a large size and I really need to access this file to recover my library in service again.

Appreciate your help people

Simon.

If the Flash DRIVE has been formatted NTFS for Windows, it is read-only for Mac and all the files that need to be open about it, for example the .itl will appear locked iTunes on a Mac.  You can copy all the files on the Mac, or to find ways to use it to use the NTFS drive (you can buy special drivers if you absolutely need to keep NTFS) but the best thing would be to at least temporarily store the files somewhere else and reformat the drive Mac extended.

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