iTunes is beachballing. Unable to fix

[markw10]

I am running iTunes on a Mac Pro running OS X Mavericks. It's worked fine until a few weeks ago.
I have a music collection of approximately 3000 songs and have a large collection of podcasts I subscribe to. It was originally set up to download podcasts for several episodes and I changed the setting to only download the most recent podcast. After I did this I decided to delete all episodes of each podcast other than the most recent. With my collection this was many but I highlighted all of them and then selected to delete them. I believe I did that by right clicking and select delete. That is when the problem started.
Now whenever I open iTunes it simply beachballs. I am not sure if it's simply locked up or is actually doing the work of deleting those podcasts. I have even let it run overnight hoping that it would be completed in the morning but I have woken up to find my computer locked up. It's obviously using up a massive amount of resources.
I use iTunes a lot and miss having it. Any idea of how I can fix this?
Thanks!

 

[westrock2000]

I don't think that should have killed it. I just deleted like 900 movies from my library for house cleaning purposes and it was fine with it.

Do you have iTunes Match though?

 

[BrianBaughn]

This Apple support article may be your solution: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451

 

[Sital]

Have you tried restarting your computer? Repairing permissions?

 

[Partron22]

Sounds similar to this guy's problem: iTunes keeps crashing on Snow Leopard

 

[JonLa]

option-click Itunes and when it prompts you to choose the library, create a new one. Add a few tracks to it and see if it beachballs. May be that the library file is corrupt somehow so this would be a good way to see if that's it

 

[aaronvan]

I am running iTunes on a Mac Pro running OS X Mavericks. It's worked fine until a few weeks ago.
I have a music collection of approximately 3000 songs and have a large collection of podcasts I subscribe to. It was originally set up to download podcasts for several episodes and I changed the setting to only download the most recent podcast. After I did this I decided to delete all episodes of each podcast other than the most recent. With my collection this was many but I highlighted all of them and then selected to delete them. I believe I did that by right clicking and select delete. That is when the problem started.
Now whenever I open iTunes it simply beachballs. I am not sure if it's simply locked up or is actually doing the work of deleting those podcasts. I have even let it run overnight hoping that it would be completed in the morning but I have woken up to find my computer locked up. It's obviously using up a massive amount of resources.
I use iTunes a lot and miss having it. Any idea of how I can fix this?
Thanks!

Same here. I deleted about ten podcasts and when I open iTunes, it begins downloading the same podcasts before it goes into beach ball mode.

Repairing disk permissions did nothing.