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• Cannot move iTunes library.itl on the desktop

  When I turned on my PC today, I found all my iTunes library has been deleted no aparent reason.

  Fortunately, I had saved a copy of the library and all the playlists in my hard drive, but in any case whenever I open iTunes, now it says that the library is corrupted, so I have to import the saved old library every time. My music is not lost, but it's annoying to do this, of course.

  So I read Apple's Support article on the recovery of the iTunes library, and I tried to follow the steps but when I come to step "Drag the iTunes Library.itl file to your desktop", an error (I'll try to translate it because my computer is in Spanish, it may not be the exact words) :

  "This file cant't be moved due to an unexpected error." If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to get help for this problem.

  Error 0 x 80070570: the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable. »

  How may I order? I know the other option is to delete it, but I can't do either.

  It is without saying I have not iTunes open when I do this task, of course.
  Also, I looked at the error, but Microsoft did not have an appropriate response. He asked me if I tried to change the directory of the file, but I'm afraid I don't know how to do it.

  My operating system is Windows 7

  Any help is appreciated, thanks

  Restart your computer. See the empty/corrupted after upgrade/crash iTunes library.

  TT2

• How to get around a fake "cannot read itunes library.itl?

  I have a Windows 7 laptop I want to back up the same on a Windows laptop 8.  Should I bring all the files on the Windows 7 laptop to Windows 8 laptop computer including my music/itunes and program/itunes files.  It has worked for years.  All of a sudden I get a message when you go to itunes on the laptop computer of Windows 8 that say 'cannot read itunes library.itl because it was created by a different version.'  This is different from the case referred to the support forum where people want to deliberately use an earlier version of itunes.  I want to use on the laptop Windows 7 and Windows 8 for the latest version of itune laptop.  To make sure that I have request for updates on two laptops from itunes and received responses that I already have the latest version installed on two laptops.  I can access itunes on the Windows 7 laptop, but not Windows Mobile, 8.  How to get around this indication false error on my laptop Windows 8?   I have the latest version and the itunes and all files have been created using the most recent version.

  You have identical versions of iTunes on both machines?  The two latest updates of iTunes (12.3.3, 12.4.0) have included both updates of database for the latest library files can only be read by older versions.

  How are you "Portage" your library data?  The error message may indicate a corrupt library file.

  Also note that you should not try to replicate the folder iTunes program between computers - there is a high risk that the results will be unpredictable, especially since you're moving between two different editions of Windows.  There is really no need to do this - there is no data stored within the hierarchy of program files, who wanted to be replicated on several PC.

• Cannot sync the ipod. "The file"iTunes Library.itl is unreadable because it was created by a newer version of iTunes"my IPOD 80 GB so old, it is obsolete?

  I finally got iTunes and Win10 together and was able to load the update of iTunes. I tried to sync my iPod (80 GB), but get the following: the file "iTunes Library.itl is unreadable because it was created by a newer version of iTunes."

  See the empty/corrupted after upgrade/crash iTunes library. This particular symptom is for the end.

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• my itunes will not open and there is a pop up that rpet ' cannot read itunes library .itl file ' '.

  For some reason any my itunes will not open and there is a pop up that keeps saying "cannot read the itunes library .itl file ' and I don't know why it keeps coming back." Anyone know?

  Hi natalieribeiro,

  ·         What version of the operating system is installed on the computer?

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Follow the steps in the article.

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/TS1717

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/HT1923

  Method 2: Perform one perform a clean boot to see if there is any software conflict as the clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  Note: After completing the steps in the clean boot troubleshooting, follow the link step 7 to return the computer to a Normal startupmode.

  If the problem persists, contact Apple support for more help and information.

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/HE57

• Empty and closed iTunes library iTunes Library.itl file.

  Every time I open iTunes, my library is empty.
  I ve already tried to open iTunes, all holding the SHIFT key, but not matter which library I get, iTunes opens always empty.
  After trying that, I started to look around for other ways to recover from my library. People told me to uncheck the 'read only' to my iTunes folder. I did, but I received a message stating that the iTunes Library.itl file was locked and I had no access. I clicked on 'ignore' and uncheck the rest of the files and folders have given no problem.
  I then examined the .itl file, the read-only box was not checked, to my surprise. However, the option of archiving, a. But because the file is locked, I couldn't change a thing.
  After that, I read about "unlocker", I downloaded then, but that has not changed a thing either.
  Also, when I checked the iTunes folder earlier, the read-only option was checked again!
  I hope someone here can solve my problem, because I have really no idea how solve it on my own now.
  Thanks in advance!

  For assistance with iTunes, contact Apple technical support via their website.

• Nokia iTunes Library .itl is locked on a locked disk or you do not have permission for this file

  Nokia iTunes Library .itl is locked on a locked disk or you do not have permission for this file

  Hello

  When you get this error message?

  Follow the steps below and check if that helps.

  Method 1:Follow measures to take in charge of the case.

  1. open Windows Explorer and locate the file or folder you want to take charge.

  2 - Click on the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.

  3. click on advanced and then click the owner tab.

  4. click on edit and then do one of the following:

  To change the owner to a user or group that is not listed, click other users and groups and enter the object name to select (examples), type the name of the user or group and then click OK.

  To change the owner to a user or a group is listed in the change owner to box, click the new owner.

  5. (optional) to change the owner of all subcontainers and objects in the tree view, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects of the box.

  Method 2: Follow the steps below and check if that helps.

  Change the permissions on the folder / my music/itunes (and all subfolders and files) so that it is not "read-only".
  Here's how:
  a. by doing a right click on the name of the iTunes folder, and then select Properties.
  b. you will see the read-only check box. Make sure it is disabled.

  Topic: iTunes Library.itl file is locked
  http://discussions.Apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2678797&TSTART=0

  Topic: iTunes Library.itl file is locked on a locked disk or no write permission
  http://discussions.Apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2051801

• I can't run iTunes on Windows 7 ultimate: "the itunes library.itl file is locked."

  then I try to run itunes and a message appears that says "itunes library.itl file is locked on a locked disk or you do not have permission to write to this file.
  then I ran out and he said it was bundles. I then ran the program to check if I could run it on xp, but he also said that I had no programs supported. What I can do, or how to get programs supported? !!!

  Hello darealguty,

  Thanks for posting on the Microsoft answers Forum.

  iTunes 9.0.2 version is compatible with Windows 7. You could try the following to see if it helps.

  Go to the iTunes folder. Right-click and select Properties. Uncheck the read-only box.
  Click on apply, click OK to change all subfolders. Click OK.
  Now check and see if you can open iTunes.

  If this is not enough, then you must go to http://www.apple.com/support.

  Please let us know if this suggestion has helped to solve your problem.

  Sincerely,

  Marilyn
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think

• Windows Vista (damaged) iTunes library

  I have a PC with Windows Vista. My iTunes has about 8000 songs in my library. Most have been burned CDs, mp3 Youtube and a few itunes purchases.

  About 3500 are grouped into playlists. Only my playlists are synced to an iPod classic.

  I think that this old PC can be buggy and two nights ago, there was a question C: drive which

  the "repaired" computer itself - took a few hours...

  Today, I burned a few songs from the CD to add to my itunes library.

  Now these two CD accounts for almost my entire library - I can also find a few old Itunes purchases

  in the iTunes library.  But 95% of the library is "gone".

  There is a folder called Itunes library (damaged) which has 2.5 MB. I suspect that this is my previous library and playlists.

  I can't get it open.

  I really want to restore the entire library and transfer it to a new PC w Windows 10.

  Can anyone help?

  The song files are probably still stored on your computer.  The "damage" was to your file to iTunes (the one marked as "damaged") library database.  The iTunes Library.itl file is what keeps track of songs (and other media) in your iTunes library and where their media files are stored.  If it is damaged, iTunes creates a new (empty) iTunes library database file.  Real media files are not in the iTunes library file, they are stored elsewhere.

  I think that this old PC can be buggy and two nights ago, there was a question C: drive which

  the "repaired" computer itself - took an hour or two.

  NOTE: If there are general data corruption, it may have also affected some of your media files (not only your iTunes library database file).

  The default location (for your iTunes media files) is account user music (or music), and then in the iTunes folder in your folder.  Using Windows Explorer, to see if you have a folder called iTunes Media to this place (it can be called iTunes Music).  If you do, look inside to find your song files, organized by media type, then artist name and album name.  If you use default iTunes, songs that you imported to CD via iTunes should be there.  Songs purchased from iTunes Store should be at this place.  The song files added from an external source (not directly imported from CD or iTunes Store) may or may not be stored at this location.

  I really want to restore the entire library and transfer it to a new PC w Windows 10.

  When you find your music files, copy them to a disk of a certain type.  On the new computer, run iTunes.  Go to the Advanced iTunes preferences pane.  There is a setting here to copy files to the iTunes folder when adding to Library Media.  I think that the option is not checked by default for Windows, but you should check in your case.  The other setting to keep iTunes Media folder organized must also be checked, if it isn't already.

  Show your music library in the iTunes window.  In the external drive with your song files, drag the song files or folders containing music files to the iTunes window and the drop.  iTunes adds all the compatible media files it finds in your new iTunes library.  Alternatively, instead of drag and drop, you can use the Add to library iTunes command in menu bar, under file.

  NOTE: This adds only your old media files to a new iTunes library.  Data such as playlists, ratings, number of coin, date added, etc are not transferred.  If you want to retrieve these data support, you can get it back on the old PC.  Please report if you want to try to do, instead of just transfer your media files to the new PC.

• My music is gone and the library.itl method did not work. Help, please!

  I realized that all the songs in my library disappeared, with the exception of those that I bought. I have read a few older threads on people who have this same problem after an update and tried the steps (detected the itunes library.itl file, renaming etc.), but it did not work.

  My music is all saved on my computer and an extra hard drive, but I have more than 20,000 songs and I need my playlists to my business events and the demo of sampling and that makes me desperate. Is there anyway that I can restore my itunes when everything was perfect without slipping literally 20,000 songs in itunes? not to mention those of CDs. thank you if it is not resolved I can cry really.

  You say that you have a backup of your music, but you also have a backup of your library files?  Your playlists are only in your file "itunes library".

  I kind of suspect that you may have not followed exactly the instructions. When you install an update the iTunes application puts a copy of your old library file in the previous record of libraries with a date added at the end.  It is essentially the only thing that has your playlists and a list of media in your media folder.  iTunes creates a library update, then he calls "iTunes Library.itl" If this update procedure is not successful (and in most cases, it is) you can restore it by going to the previous iTunes libraries folder and make a copy of the latest library here (by date, you can see), rename the file by removing everything except "iTunes Library.itl" and what to put in the main folder of iTunes.  Restart iTunes.  If that really, really does not then your recourse to use the library files backup copies you hopefully takes place before that you did any kind of update software on your computer.  It's triply critical if you use equipment on a professional basis because your business depends on.

  If necessary, you can work your way through the previous libraries although they will not be updated. Me realize also that what you see in iTunes is only a list of what is in the file of the library and if you return to a library very old media are still in the media folder, but are unknown to iTunes because they do not appear in the old file to the library.

• (Corrupt) 12.3 without updating iTunes library

  Today when I opened my iTunes library it saids me that iTunes library was damaged and about 2500 titles and almost all of my missing playlist (it seems that iTunes uses a previous library of mine, like 6 months ago or not). I tried with the last iTunes Library.itl file in the 'previous iTunes library' folder, but given that I haven't had an update, I found the file most recent was December last year (and I have downloaded more than 1000 songs and made a lot of new reading list since then). I also tried to import the iTunes Music Library.xml into my iTunes but it told me that a few pieces of "iTunes" Music Library.xml had not be imported because they cannot be found.

  Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my bad English

  Luca

  See the empty/corrupted after upgrade/crash iTunes library. Is there the .tmp files in the iTunes folder? You have a Time Machine backup? It is quite easy to import new songs. It may be possible to recover playlists if they have been synchronized to a device.

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• I need to keep previous iTunes libraries

  I just consolidated my iTunes library and then he backed up to an external drive.  When I looked at the iTunes music folder it has literally doubled in size, from 40 GB to 80 GB.  I noticed the previous iTunes libraries folder was almost as big as my music folder - I really need to keep the record previous libraries?

  The previous iTunes libraries folder contains copies dated the base of iTunes ( iTunes Library.itl file) that are created automatically when some (but not all) iTunes updates - this only happens when the update includes a change to the structure of the database.  Unless you think you'll never go back to a very old version of iTunes, you can safely remove all but the most recent of these files in the previous iTunes libraries folder.

  However, it is probably not related to the increased use of disc that you see.  My main iTunes library is about 1 TB; the previous iTunes Libraries folder is approximately 53 MB (containing copies of the file iTunes Library.itl since the three latest updates which included a database change, from October 2014, 2015 in June and July 2015).  I suspect that what you see is a consequence of the operation of the process of consolidation of library.  When you use this feature, iTunes will copy all the multimedia files that are not located in the folder location standard iTunes Media in this folder structure.  The original versions of media files, however, is more related to the iTunes library database, remain where they are.  Is it possible that you have media files/folders in the previous iTunes libraries folder?  In normal operation configuration / this should only include the copies dated of the database file:

  

  My suggestion would be to backup your complete library right now to a suitable device, remove everything in the previous iTunes libraries folder with the exception of the most recent iTunes Library aaaa-mm-jj .itl file, start iTunes and verify that you can read and sync everything as planned.  If so, you are ready to go - otherwise, you can use backup to restore files from the library to their previous state for more investigations.

• import iTunes library

  I installed clean El Capitan Yosemite previous deletion which I backup on external drive.

  I had hundreds of free songs which I had imported into iTunes, how to restore these El Capitan iTunes songs?

  Moving a library: quick response if you use preferences by default iTunes settings: copy the folder integer iTunes (and to ensure that all of its subfolders and files) intact at the other disk, hold down the option/alt key (shift on Windows) keys to start iTunes and on request to select a library select iTunes Library.itl file in the copied folder.

  When it's to a new computer put the iTunes folder copied to the default location of Macintosh HD > users > * user name * > music (or home > music) so you don't even have to start with the down option, iTunes will automatically look for what it y.  (Make sure that it is no anything already in the iTunes folder it that you want to keep because you will replace it with the one you are moving).  Don't forget to authorize computer in iTunes to your Apple ID if you use it to synchronize with Apple devices or play multimedia DRM protected (e.g., movies).

  Some elements used in iTunes related activities are not stored in the iTunes library folder, but in special folders.  If you move a library to another computer, you can copy these too:

  -Music Apple file cache: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/2015/09/new-flush-apple-music-cache-files/

  -device iOS, various preferences files backups: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3285925

• Missing iTunes library and playlists... Please help

  Hello, this morning to my horror, I started iTunes and all my 20,000 songs and playlists, I spent years developing are absent.  Would it be a problem with my hard drive or a disk that allows iTunes search startup files?  I checked the path to the file and it seems that the music is always in their folders however re import all would not get the playlists back and on top of that the last backup I have was from 2014.    Can anyone help

  It is possible that your iTunes library file has become corrupted, so iTunes has started up with a new iTunes library.  Or you may have accidentally set iTunes to open a new iTunes library.  If you use the default configuration, the iTunes library file is located in your iTunes folder and called iTunes Library.itl, to this place

  [startup drive] /Users/ [your name of user account] / music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl

  NOTE: The iTunes library file is a database that defines your iTunes library.  It contains no files media real iTunes, which are organized and stored separately.

  Go to this location using a Finder window; What do you see?  If you see a file called iTunes Library.itl here, quit iTunes (if you run) and use this method to open iTunes using this library file.

  Open a different iTunes library file or create a new - Apple Support

  If it does not open or if you still get a library empty in iTunes, you use Time Machine to back up your boot drive?  If you do, you can restore your library iTunes from a State of backup file (date/time) when it does not have this problem.  In your case, it would be immediately before the last time you used iTunes with a working library.  Time Machine does incremental backups every hour, so this should be very close to when the problem occurred, if your iTunes library should be updated more often.

  If you do not have a backup (why not?) of your user data, look in the folder iTunes for a folder called Previous iTunes Libraries.  iTunes, these backups when there is a major update to iTunes, in the case where something bad happens or the user must go back to a previous version of iTunes for some reason any.  If the last backup of 'previous' iTunes library is not too old, you can use this library file to open iTunes, using this procedure

  If you do not see your content once you update iTunes - Apple Support

• do not download itunes open said the itunes library file cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes

  The iTuneslibrary.itl file cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes

  Hello

  This error prevents the launch of iTunes. The library file has been modified to work with the new version of iTunes, so it is no longer compatible with the previous version. The good news, however, is that Apple save the iTunes library file in a subdirectory that allows you to revert to the previous version.

  
  Method 1:
  You can try the steps to recover a previous version of the iTunes Library.itl file.
  a. open your folder My Documents\My Music\ (Itunes).
  b. we backup the current version first. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library.itl.bak to something.
  c. go to the My Documents\My Music\Previous of iTunes libraries folder.
  d. you can see several files that start with the iTunes library and have a date included in the name. Copy the new file into the folder.
  f. return to the my documents\Ma music and paste the file in the previous step. (The folder in step 1)
  g. rename the new file copied to iTunes Library.itl.
  Your library should now be restored to the previous version of iTunes, and the problem is solved,
  
  Method 2:
  If the problem persists then you can also uninstall and reinstall iTunes and check if it helps:
  Remove and reinstall iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
  http://support.Apple.com/kb/HT1923