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Why can't iTunes Find My Songs?

I have an iTunes/iPod problem. In August I created a library on one of my computers with about 150 songs. I then created another library on a different computer. I now want to put my old songs from the first library back into my iPod. So, today I opened my first library and hooked up my iPod. For all the songs I clicked (most) I got a message that said "This song could not be used because the original file could not be located. Would you like to locate it? " I was so confused. Have I lost all of my songs? The library hasn't been opened in a while but is that a reason to mess up all the songs? Please help me!! I want to listen to these songs.

Dave's Answer:

This sounds like a problem with an iPod not being able to sync to two libraries at the same time. If that's the case, then your easiest solution would be to move the 150 song library over from one computer to the other, I think.

But let's make sure that the problem isn't with the music library itself. Do you know the name of any one song in the 150? If so, open up the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) then type in locate "XXXX" where "XXX" is a fragment of the song name you remember, with appropriate upper and lower case letters.

You should get something like this:

$ locate "Apple Tree"
/Volumes/X2/iTunes Library/Michael Franks/Tiger In The Rain/Underneath 
The Apple Tree.mp3
/Volumes/X2/iTunes Library/The Andrews Sisters/The Best of The
Andrews Sisters/Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else 
But Me).mp3

That will tell you the files from your music library are located on your disk (mine is in /Volumes/X2/iTunes Library/ ).

Now open iTunes and when it says "do you want to locate it" say YES and navigate to that directory. I think it'll resolve all of them, but if not, you could also open the folder in the Finder and just drag all the album folders onto the iTunes app itself.

Or, if you want to move all the songs over, use the Finder to move into the music library, click on all the song folders you're interested in, then command-click on any one selected folder to get the pop-up menu and choose "Make Archive". It'll create a ZIP file that has all the songs you want to move: copy that to your newer computer, then double click it to unpack and simply drag all the music folders onto the iTunes application itself.

Try this, and report back to us how it worked out.

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Comments

It sounds more like to me that you added the files to the library and it wasn't set to automatically consolidate the music files in the library and you then deleted the originals thinking it had them in your liibrary also but they weren't there. Of course, I may be wrong and it may have just lost your library locations.

Posted by: carey at January 9, 2005 10:51 PM

my problem is that i cant find my songs in any folders, i have a dell. i'm just trying to move my library on iTunes from one username to the others. i did accomplish to move it to one username but when i went back to the original username it could'nt locate the "original file" of most of my songs. to make matters worse i erased the library by clicking on one song that i could find,when i double-clicked it, it then replaced all my songs(which had exclamation points next to them)and all my playlists. Now i'm searching My Computer for my songs but i can't find any.Please help me, i'm soooooOOO frustrated can you please help me???!?

Posted by: mike at July 9, 2005 6:28 AM

First, I had a problem when loading a cd into the ipod from my pc laptop, where the original library is stored, and the itune program did not retrieve the song title and artist.
Second, after messing with the pc, I decided to use my wife's mac to load the cd on the ipod, resulting the losing of my whole pc library pn the ipod. Song titles and artists were still not retrieved with the cd loading from the mac.
What can be done to restore the pc library and correct the pc itune program to retrieve song titles and artists?

Posted by: Tony Soriano at August 19, 2005 6:33 PM

Dave My Main Savior to be, help me, I can't access my music library in iTunes. It use to be there. I was able to download songs from this library onto iTunes. Now when I plug in my iPod "Richard's iPod" is displayed but my library is just highlighted, I cant do anything with it, can't play songs, can't download.

If I try a message appears.. "The iPod "Richards iPod"is linked to another iTunes music library. Do you want to change the link to this iTunes library and replace all existing songs and playlists on this iPod with those from this library'. Dave I hit the yes button with my iPod shuffle and lost the songs that were on it. No big deal it was just an experiment. There is also a little picture of a lock where the load up bar is. Sorry I wasn't done. Dave can you please tell me what going on. Thanks so much Richard

Posted by: Richard at January 4, 2006 9:13 PM

Sounds like what you might need is an iPod sync application so you can grab your files before you re-associate the unit with your computer. Why it lost that association is baffling, but if you're using a Mac, you'll find that versiontracker.com has a number of different matches for the search "iPod sync", and if you're a PC user, go to download.com and do the same search.

Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 4, 2006 11:08 PM

We have a household "server" that has most of our music on it. Most have been copied from CD's (yes, that we'ver purchsed) I also have some music on my own computer.

Although all songs are listed in my library, most of them have the exclamation point next to them and iTunes can't find/play them when i click on them. I have tried redirecting iTunes to the network computer that houses the songs but that doesn't work. I'll be da&&%#$(#ed if I'm going to manually direct each and every one of 3,000+ songs.

Help!?

: /

Posted by: donna at January 10, 2006 10:22 AM

ive been haveing the same problems, only i havent done anything with itunes. i havent had any other IDs or usernames but my own.
the window says that my original files cant be located!
i try to find them, but they are no where to found.
there are only a few songs left. please, i ABLSOLUTELY NEED HELP.
i only have about 62 songs on itunes. i can only listen to 11.

Posted by: Paul at January 11, 2006 7:33 PM

i download my cd's onto my itunes library and when finished i transfered the songs i wanted onto my ipod nano. this was fine until i went back the next day to change some of the songs on my nano and noticed that my library was not in itunes anymore. The wierd things is that if i go into properties my itunes still says that i have 5.67Gb worth of material in their, which is my colplete library.

do you have any suggestions on how i can get my library back so that i can see it.

Posted by: Joel at January 11, 2006 9:20 PM

Dave, I had my Ipod hooked up to my computer and when I signed onto Itunes it wiped out my library, completely and the songs on my pod. I cannot find them on my hard drive. Is there anyway to get them back?

Thanks!

Lynn

Posted by: lynn at January 12, 2006 12:21 PM

If your songs are still on your iPod, you can download one of the many shareware ipod sync programs that will let you copy them onto your computer and then import them into iTunes again, without much fuss. If they're gone from the iPod too, well, bad news. They're gone.

To find these sync programs, go to http://www.download.com or http://www.versiontracker.com/ (PC or Mac, respectively) and search for "iPod" or "iPod sync".

Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 12, 2006 12:31 PM

This stuff makes me want to get rid of my iPod. I recorded my own voice on my iPod and I can't even download it because the iPod is so restrictive. This isn't copyrighted material, it's my own damn voice!!!! I should be able to pull it off of my iPod like any other computer file.

Posted by: Dave at January 18, 2006 11:29 AM

I have files on my computer in my music file that I tunes won't add into my library. They are all .mp3 files and I can see them in the music folder. When I add them to the library it shows that they are being added, but when I search for them they don't show up in I tunes. Help!

Posted by: David at January 19, 2006 11:16 PM

Recently I had to have my Dell laptop re-formatted. This meant it had to be wiped clean. Before wiping the laptop I burned a bunch of CDs with all the songs I had loaded to my iPod. I also saved the itunes *.itl and *.xml files that were on the computer.

I would like to know if there is a way to restore the playlists I had originally created on my laptop so that when I re-install iTunes I can re-create my playlists. Thanks.

Posted by: Brian at February 2, 2006 2:13 PM

my iTunes will not open because my eMac OSx says it they are in an invalid library. Can you help me.

Posted by: Elisha Swenson at February 22, 2006 1:05 PM

i want to burn a cd for my friend with my songs i have on my itunes, but they will only burn if they are in my library and half of the songs i wanna burn are only saved on my ipod and not in the library. i need to either get my songs from my ipod into my library or figure out how to burn from my ipod. HELP!!!

Posted by: halli at April 22, 2006 5:11 PM

hi i think i have a problem i was cleaning out my i tunes and created new folders so my songs would be organized and i deleted the old folders and now when i plug in my i pod to update it is saying i can not update because the folders needed to update have been deleted how can i get those folders back? i checked in my recycling bin and they are not there. please help me

Posted by: Angela at June 5, 2006 2:08 PM

Dave, I have a question... you said to go to Application -> Utilities -> Terminal..but where is applications???

Posted by: Mike at June 10, 2006 2:05 PM

I have all of the songz in my library but every time i try 2 update my ipod it alwayz sayz "songs on the iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist." a couple dayz ago there was a new playlist added called "ipod sellection list" i deleted it though because it was no use. i want the songz back on my ipod pleaz help me

Posted by: Jonathan at July 25, 2006 8:23 PM

Mike, I'm talking about a Mac when I talk about "Applications". A Windows system works differently. Check:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_itunes_windows.html

Jonathan, I'm really not sure what's happened with your iPod because you definitely can add and delete playlists without affecting what music is actually on your iPod. When you *browse* your music collection by Artist, say, do you see all your songs, or have they all vanished?

Posted by: Dave Taylor at July 26, 2006 8:03 AM

My problem is having multiple Ipods (two Nano's, and the 60Gig Ipod), and multiple computers. My wife likes some of the songs my daughter has on her Ipod, and I am not sure how I am going to add those to her Ipod without wiping out her whole library of existing songs. I have found a nifty freeware tool called "Ipod Dump" which basically "dumps" your Ipod's music onto another computer's library. You can find it at http://www.download.com under "Ipod Dump". After you install it, you copy the executable to the root of your Ipod and run it from there. Once you run it, all of your songs on your Ipod will show up and then you can "dump" those songs onto the computer. Be sure to read the help files to understand all the options and how to use it. It takes some getting use to, but it's not bad for a freebie.

Posted by: mrmultimediaman at August 28, 2006 8:16 AM

Use iPod Viewer (a free download) to get the files off of the iPod.

Posted by: stingerman at September 5, 2006 4:28 PM

Hi,

I have the same problem as Jonathan a few posts up. When I plugged in my ipod nano I got the message that "songs on the ipod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected no longer exist". Now all the music is wiped off my nano. All the music is still in my itunes though, and still plays through itunes. Please help?!? Thanks so much in advance.

Posted by: Lane at September 9, 2006 12:38 PM

I NEED help! All of my songs on my itunes library,playlists, and ipod and gone! They were mostly all purchased and I had more than 300. I would really appriciate it if you could tell me how to retreive them from my computer somehow! Thanks.

Posted by: Unknown at September 25, 2006 3:06 PM

Please How can I insert aCD into Itunes and download

Posted by: phil at October 11, 2006 11:21 AM

my ipod nano has been freezing on me alot lately, and a little while ago i d/l a newer version of itunes and every since then i havent been able to put music onto my ipod or take songs off? Whats wrong with it? HELP ME ASAP!! i go every where with it and i need to put new songs on it and take the old ones off.

THNX,
sam

Posted by: sam at November 2, 2006 3:35 PM

Dave, thanks for your great articles. But in my case, the songs are there in the hard disk, but iTunes does not "see" them (after changing my booting hard disk by a new one with a new name and reorganizing the folders containing the songs). They all have an exclamation mark and if I double click one of them, it does not play but a prompt allows me to localize it. Then it plays OK.

The problem is that I have several thousands of such songs sorted in several folders and sub-folders. How to fix that at once without having to do it ony-by-one?

I know that I can drag and drop such folders of songs into iTunes, but I want to do it without losing my ratings and other information like last played, etc. I do not know how to accomplish that.

In a nutshell, these songs were localized by iTunes at a time in other booting disk, but now they need to re relocalized without losing their information. And the original hard disk is no longer available.

More details about this scenario/problem here:

Relocating music
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=31133

Posted by: AsX at November 11, 2006 10:22 PM

i saved songs on my playlist but i cant seem to find them

Posted by: tina at November 14, 2006 4:11 PM

I have a weird problem with my iPod. On some (not all, not often) occasions when I add music and then try to play it by artist it doesn't list all the music by that artist, some (usually one) but not all. The songs are there because I can find them by song. The only way I have found to get it to work correctly is to do a restore on the iPod after I have added the music. I have two iPods and both have the same situation happen to them. I also have been through three Macs since iPod came out, and this situation has followed me from mac to mac. So I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue. It seems to have started after apple did the update a couple years back that scrambles the filenames on iPod.

Posted by: Steven at November 22, 2006 12:47 PM

The problem is that I have several thousands of such songs sorted in several folders and sub-folders. How to fix that at once without having to do it ony-by-one?

I know that I can drag and drop such folders of songs into iTunes, but I want to do it without losing my ratings and other information like last played, etc. I do not know how to accomplish that.

More details about this scenario/problem here:

Relocating music
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=31133

Posted by: AsX at November 25, 2006 10:02 PM

For the people who had trouble getting music onto their own iPod, I had the same problem and I have a solution for you.

In iTunes (I have Windows) go to Edit -> Prefrences. Then go to the iPod tab. You should see a white box with two options above it. Both are about your iTunes playlist and updating your iPod. If you try one or another.. I'm sure one will work. I hope my advice helps.

Posted by: Clean at December 4, 2006 9:39 PM

I just got a nano as a gift. I tried to transfer music from my pc to ipod. I can not find files on ipod when not plugged into computer however when I plug into computer and got to ipod flash drive I can play my music??? I don't get this at all! Please help!

Posted by: Kim at December 9, 2006 9:17 PM

I have itunes on my system but am not able to download songs onto my ipod? Every time I even try some option it says, insert CD???

Posted by: pawan at December 18, 2006 9:25 AM

So I recently got a new computer and a new ipod, and instead of transfering all my songs on itunes from my old computer to my new one, I synced them using my old ipod. I can listen to the songs in my library fine, but i am unable to access my music folder under "Brock's Ipod". What can I do so that I can listen to my songs under my ipod?

Posted by: Brock at January 23, 2007 3:58 PM

I want to burn a playlist on itunes onto a disk. I insert a blank disk and click burn in the upper right hand corner. It says checking disk... the it says checking playlist... and then it says an eror occured number 261. and with that a wizard pop up comes up saying this file could not be written onto the cd. How do i fix this?

Posted by: Austin at February 9, 2007 4:58 PM

My iTunes won't show that my iPod is hooked up! HELP!...please :(

Posted by: Bobby at February 9, 2007 5:29 PM

why cant i find the songs i am ever looking for?

Posted by: Sarah at February 12, 2007 3:41 PM

My iTunes is really messed up.

No Songs are on my iPod for some reason.
There are still all my songs in my library but when I try to update my iPod it says "Songs on the iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selceted for updating no longer exist."

I have no idea what is going on.

I even tried clearing some songs and then re-uploading them but it still says I can't upload.

Thanks! - Chloe

Posted by: Chloe at February 20, 2007 12:02 PM

Hey dave, i was trying to put songs onto my ipod mini and it was trying to upload and the ipod was full. It popped up with that message. Then it popped up with something that said would you like to create a selection list to go on our ipod (or something liek that) and i clicked ok. So a new playlist popped up called Max's ipod selected list. (or sumthing like that) So i took out the ipod and the only playlist on the ipod was that one with all the songs on it. So i deleted a couple of songs to have room to put more songs on. I then deleted that playlist from the itunes. All the other paylists i had were still there and all the songs so i thought it would be ok. WHen i deleted it it wiped all the songs off the ipod. Now when i try to upload them back on it says 'songs on the iPoMax's iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist'. what can i do about this and get the songs back onto the iPod. Cheerse Max

Posted by: Max Pringle at March 1, 2007 3:35 AM

I had a playlist in iTunes (windows) where my music to put on my shuffle was (all the best songs for running). I store all my music on my external hard drive. When I didn't have the external plugged in, and went to charge my shuffle, it deleted all the songs. I plugged the external back in, but itunes now wants me to manually locate every file on the playlist. Is there any way to tell it to just search for the whole playlist in the file it should be in? I don't have the time to redirect all of the songs...

Posted by: Lynn at March 4, 2007 4:56 PM

I Just recently got a new computer. cuz my old one stopped working the mother board went out and.but the hard drive is still good. But now on my new comp. i do not have itunes.So if i was to download itunes again would i be able to get all my music and videos back on to my comp.

Posted by: Daniel Cordova at March 5, 2007 11:06 PM

My dad copied all my songs from iTunes on a CD and now when I try to listen to my songs off iTunes, if it was one my dad copied) I can't listen to them. "This song could not be used because the original file could not be located. Would you like to locate it? " But then whe I try to find it. The Locatiosn box closes, i have search my harddrive and everything and my songs are nowhere. Can you help me?

Posted by: Heather at March 13, 2007 6:36 PM

Hi Dave, I have a similar problem to Daniel Cordova ^^^^^. I had had iTunes on my computer, but to due to an excessive amount of viruses my dad had to remove and reinstall everything including my iTunes library, which was never backed up onto a disc. Is there anyway for me sync my iPod with my new iTunes library? thanks

Posted by: Paul at March 20, 2007 2:14 PM

I have recently noticed that a lot of my songs are just disappearing for no reason. More and more go each day. I will click on a song, and it will say that it is unable to locate it. So i go to locate it, and i can't find any of my songs anywhere. All the songs that don't work have an "!" mark by it if that is to any help answering my question. All the songs that are gone are all from itunes, or from burned CD's. Please help, i have no idea what to do!

Posted by: Kate at March 24, 2007 10:32 PM

I can't find my library in itunes. Whenever I open itunes the library is black and all my songs are gone. When I plug in my ipod, itunes recognizes the device and shows my old library only I cant access it. What should I do?

Posted by: Amanda at March 27, 2007 3:17 PM

thankiuu a lott i finally updatd my i-pod well not fnally actually i only took abou 2 to 3minute but thnx XD

Posted by: me at April 4, 2007 2:56 PM

I also have the problem: "songs on the iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist" and don't know how to fix it. If you have any ideas that would be great.

Thanks

Posted by: Angela at April 10, 2007 10:22 PM

I have all my music on my pc's hard drive in the 'my music' folder (c:\documents and settings\my documents\my music. itunes is pointing to the folder and all the songs appear in my library but some appear with a ! saying the original copy could not be located. When it asks to locate the file I am able and I can play them through itunes. Once the song is played the ! disappears but when I synch my ipod the songs will not copy to the ipod and the ! returns. The songs are on my pc and I can get itunes to find them but they still won't save to my ipod.

Posted by: Jeff at April 15, 2007 9:30 PM

More on Ipods I have an issue finding songs and artisits on my ipod. When I plug my ipod into my laptop and browse it through My Computer it will show the artist I want (eg Avril Lavigne) and that foulder will show all her songs. But when I unplug my ipod and try to scrol through the artists its not there. If I try looking for the song they're also not there?? Why is it that they are on the ipod but I cant find them anywhere? It's really pissing my off. I tried removing the whole artist folder and resyncing it which didnt work I renamed every song just in case and I've restarted the ipod so many times I couldn't count. Nothing is working! Any ideas?

Posted by: Bianca at April 20, 2007 8:20 PM

I have a BIG PROBLEM. YESTERDAY I OPENED ITUNES AND I NOTICED THAT MY LIBRARY AND PLAYLISTS ARE COMPLETLEY ERASED AND I'M AFRAID IF I PLUG MY IPOD IN THEN ALL MY SONGS ON MY IPOD WILL BE LOST. I LOVE TO PUT MUSIC ON MY IPOD BUT NOW I CAN'T. IF SOMEONE WOULD PLEASE HELP ME.... THANKS

Posted by: Kasey at April 22, 2007 2:39 PM

in iTunes it says songs on the iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist how can i get new ones

Posted by: Grac at May 14, 2007 11:20 AM

Posted by: Katie at May 14, 2007 1:20 PM

How do I have itunes automatically search for the mp3s located in different areas of my hard drive?

Posted by: davide at May 19, 2007 11:41 AM

i have a huge problem...i found all of my itunes library and music stuff all gone...and if i were to plug my ipod back in im afraid it would delete all songs on my ipod....what do i do?
help me plzzz

Posted by: enea at June 4, 2007 2:05 PM

i just updated my itunes and it maid my playist that started with numbers like 50 cent end up at the bottom of my playist how can i get it back to numbers then a-z ?

Posted by: wahkeen hunter at July 12, 2007 9:15 AM

Okay, so I don't really think that my problem has to really do with this, but I downloaded a CD to my Windows Media Player, and now I wanna download the songs I ripped from my CD to my iPod. I have to use iTunes to do it, but it doesen't have the songs I downloaded to sync on there. How do I fix this?

Posted by: Allison at August 3, 2007 9:53 PM

sometimes when i install other mp3 players cd, my songs on computer go missing. so i always make sure i place the songs organized.

Posted by: phurbu t namgyal at October 24, 2007 3:33 PM

i have anew IMAC however iam not sure how togo on itunes with the last of songst...l hat i acan buy for 99cents please walk me through do igo on safari/or where . ido have songs like six of them that i allready purchase i would like an itemized from step 1 to step2 etc my computer is amonth old paid1,200.00 i had a dell for 6 y2ars and i find this one difficult because i am doingwhat i think i should all iwant is the list of allsongs so icould access it easealy

Posted by: marguerite lambert at November 1, 2007 12:49 PM

hi iv turned on the computer & i opened itunes & half of my music was gone how do u get it back?
also all my playlist is gone
i still have the musics in my computer but i have like thousands & it will take like a week to fix it & manage my list again so plz help me
plz reply any1?

Posted by: ezza at November 13, 2007 2:47 AM

why is it then when i go to edit-preferences-automaticlly update when i click playlists-then it goes red my brady's ipod folder and says- ''brady's ipod cannot be updated because the dick could not be read from or written to? please help me!?!?!?! yours hopefully brady

Posted by: brady at December 8, 2007 2:43 PM

I have managed to put all my songs on itunes and from there on to my ipod. Very happy with that. However what I want to do now is to save all my songs in my library approximately 15gb(i think that is the amaount I have used)on to a cd so they are saved. This is because I am moving and I am not sure if I will take my computer with me. What kind of cd should I be looking for . Is there one that is big enough to take all my songs and if so how do I do it?
Please help me
Yours faithfully
Henriette

Posted by: Henriette at December 10, 2007 8:05 AM

Dave, I don't mean to even the slightest bit redundant but i my itunes running on Windows. I have around 1600 songs on my external HD. One day i connected my iPod to the PC and all my songs displayed in itunes but all came up with exclamation points. As i clicked on the songs i got the error message that everyone else gets "can't locate file...blah, blah". So when i manually locate the file the song plays but when i disconnect from i tunes and reconnect...the same problem occurs. I see all my songs in my external HD so i know they are there but for some reason my itunes is not recognizing it. Can you assist me?

Posted by: Sean at December 10, 2007 8:21 AM

Henriette, I'm sorry to say that there's not a CD (or DVD) in the world that can store 15GB of information. A CD can hold about 700MB, so you'd need about 22 CDs. a DVD can hold about 4GB, though, so that'd be easier if your computer can burn DVDROM disks: that'd be 4 DVDs of music. Somehow, though, I bet you have more than 15GB of music... :-)

Sean, I would go into the preferences / settings for iTunes and make sure that it's looking for your music library in the right place on the correct disk. Then you can have it rescan your computer for music and hopefully it'll all be fixed.

Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 10, 2007 11:55 AM

Oops, seems like Mr. Dave Taylor doesnt happen to know whats going on in the world today....you can store 25GB on Blue Ray Discs, and 50GB on Dual Layer Blue Ray, you can already buy commercially available Blu-Ray Recorders (around £400). I will forgive the indiscretion if you are not technically minded ;)

However thats besides the point :p

I have a similar situation only my data is located on a network volume, iTunes is one of my other PCs. iTunes is set to copy the files/folders locally when you add them into the play list across the network, even after this it still cannot locate some of them without me manually setting the pointer...even though it just downloaded them....not how i said some...this doesnt happen with them all...

Posted by: Billy Bob Thornton at December 26, 2007 5:29 AM

HI,

I have had serious problems with my ipod where I could not transfer my library to a new computer. I have been at this for 4 months with various different people helping me. I have eventually managed to get all my library on my new computer "a Dell Inspiron" however every time i click on a song it says it cannot locate the original. the library now looks ok however it will not play songs until I manually find it. any ideas ? thanks in advance

Posted by: emmet at January 3, 2008 2:47 PM

i try dragging music from my itunes library to my ipod but when i do it won't let me put the music on my ipod.

Posted by: Johnson at May 7, 2008 1:52 AM

I have two problems:

1. I can't download track titles from itunes when I copy my cd to itunes.

2. When I attempt to update my itunes software, I get the following message:

Error reading to file. Verify that you have access to that directory c:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\etc\America\Zone Info\Rainy_River.

Thank you in advance!

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