iTunes on Vista help

[Tunney]

I'm running iTunes on Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition. It used to work fine but, after upgrading to iTunes v8.0.2, it has stopped working.

When I open iTunes, the following error message is displayed:

The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.

iTunes then fails to start, so I can't even choose a different library file for it to use.

I've checked my iTunes Library.itl file and it's certainly not read-only. My only guess is that it's something to do with me having a non-standard My Documents location (M:\Documents\My Music\iTunes rather than C:\Users\<username>\Music\iTunes).

Anyone experienced this before? Know of any solution? Re-installing iTunes didn't work.

EDIT: Holding down shift whilst opening iTunes allows you to select your library file - but I get the same message!

 

[gillywibble]

Go to your iTunes folder and right click on the ITL file. Uncheck the 'read only' box and do the same for the iTunes Music Library.xml file.

 

[t!mo]

I run vista 64bit with my vista profile (ie itunes music folder) in completely different path and drive to default and it works fine with 8.0.2.20. Maybe the file has been corrupted......

 

[Tunney]

Fixed. Turned out to be a weird permissions problem with the file.

Had to go to the file and to Properties -> Security -> Advanced and change the permissions. Bizarre.