iTunes headache
I’ve been suffering through an awful problem with iTunes and my iPodder lemon client. I never suspected that the problem had to do with the iPodder client, but it just so happens that Podcasts coming in every day made the problem more than a little annoying.
Since I fixed the problem, and don’t care to reproduce it, I don’t have an exact error dialog image nor do I have the exact wording of the error message that I was receiving.
Basically, I had a permissions problem and I failed to diagnose the issue before literally months went by.
Two directories are important when you’re sucking down Podcasts. One is your iTunes music folder, usually in something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\nic\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
or
%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
If you’re a command-line geek like me. The second important directory if your music folder. I changed my music folder to D:\Music Library instead of using a subfolder of the above iTunes directory. I did this mainly because my earlier setup had my C: drive squeezed for space. D: had plenty, so there you are.
Anyway, permissions on my D:\Music Library were way fucked up. It seems like “Administrators” had all the permissions they need. Yes, I run as Administrator, shoot me. However, there was an additional permission on that directory with my specific username that was largely screwed up. Since Windows uses a least-common-denominator approach to permissions, the net permissions were simply in error.
I fixed the permissions, removing the “nic” permissions and relying on the Administrator default. Things seem to be working fine.
It’s such an unfortunate turn of events. My philosophy usually is not to mess with permissions until I want to share something and limit access. I’m surprised that such a corrupt-looking permission set made it’s way into my setup.
Apple has some knowledgebase entries on this problem. The weird thing is that when I first tried to research this in January, the resolutions weren’t available!
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