Repairing Permissions for !@#!* iTunes

[Sheldonsmith]

Relatively new MacBook Pro, SSD, 8GB Ram, Retina and since an iTunes update, I disk tools is unable to repair permissions for iTunes.

I have used MacTuneUp pro and Mountain Lion Cache Cleaner to attempt to fix the issue, but permission issues prevail. I attempted to delete iTunes and reinstall, but the MacOS won't let me (probably this is a Windows type of fix).

Any insights / experiences appreciated,

-Sheldon

 

[durkkin]

Boot into your recovery partition (Cmd + R while booting) and try to repair disk permissions from there.

 

[Sheldonsmith]

Boot into your recovery partition (Cmd + R while booting) and try to repair disk permissions from there.

Great thank you. I have tried that as well, including the change password options, but selecting the repair permissions from the change password screen.

 

[Count Blah]

Weird, it's saying that it expects a directory, but you have a file instead. Can you get one of the complete line(without the ...)? If so, you could post one here and we can compare to ours.

 

[durkkin]

Hmm. What is iTunes doing with the differing permissions? Is it not letting you open it or is it issues playing tracks?

 

[MacRumoren]

Relatively new MacBook Pro, SSD, 8GB Ram, Retina and since an iTunes update, I disk tools is unable to repair permissions for iTunes.

I have used MacTuneUp pro and Mountain Lion Cache Cleaner to attempt to fix the issue, but permission issues prevail. I attempted to delete iTunes and reinstall, but the MacOS won't let me (probably this is a Windows type of fix).

Any insights / experiences appreciated,

-Sheldon

Same situation here, no matter how many times I repair, even repairing using Recovery partition, the iTunes permission problem keeps happening.

 

[priitv8]

Actually, it's not a permissions probelm, but filesystem structure problem. Something that's expected to be a directory appeats as a file.
Haven't checked on mine, maybe it's a feature of iTunes 11?

EDIT: Just checked, and indeed, seems to be a "feature" of current iTunes itself.