itunes has gone crazy on me

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Sossity

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for the past week, I have been having nothing but problems with itunes, I load albums in, get error message saying the files are in use, failed to copy to disk" message.

It is also leaving/omitting half the album artwork on some of my albums.

i am using itunes with an external hard drive. The hard drive is formatted as NTFS, but I have paragon NTFS installed on my mac, so it can read & write to NTFS hard drives.
 
iTunes has always been an odd duck. Constant interface changes aside, my favorite quirk is how it keeps relocating my default library location.
 
Sossity said:
i am using itunes with an external hard drive. The hard drive is formatted as NTFS, but I have paragon NTFS installed on my mac, so it can read & write to NTFS hard drives.
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I'd ditch NTFS if you can. Sure Paragon and the other one allow full access to NTFS, but I'm finding that at times they get lost. First repair permissions on that drive. I honestly suggest using a WINDOWS machine to do it.

I have an iTunes device running on NTFS and it does some of the things you mention. I have a mirror of it that I run but is formatted in Mac format and have never had an issue with it.

Good luck.
 
CylonGlitch said:
I'd ditch NTFS if you can. Sure Paragon and the other one allow full access to NTFS, but I'm finding that at times they get lost. First repair permissions on that drive. I honestly suggest using a WINDOWS machine to do it.

I have an iTunes device running on NTFS and it does some of the things you mention. I have a mirror of it that I run but is formatted in Mac format and have never had an issue with it.

Good luck.
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I tried looking at the disk under disk utility, & repair & verify permissions is greyed out, so I can't use these functions with the external hard drive.
 
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