I've been running iTunes 64 bit on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit for a few months and it's been working great. Suddenly I've started getting this message: "The folder "iTunes" is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder. iTunes then fails to open. I have found that I can run it as an admin and it plays my music fine but that means I have to click through a UAC prompt and an iTunes compatability prompt everytime I run iTunes.
I am using an administrator account, I've checked my iTunes folder in Program Files and my music folder and I am the owner of both folders with full permissions (read, write, execute, etc). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I've looked on Google for some suggestions but I can't seem to get to the bottom of it.
The only thing I have noticed is that every folder on my PC is marked as read only - is this normal? I've gone into properties and unchecked the read only box and applied it but when I open it back up again the read only box is checked again! Even so, I CAN write to them.
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I've been running iTunes 64 bit on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit for a few months and it's been working great. Suddenly I've started getting this message: "The folder "iTunes" is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder. iTunes then fails to open. I have found that I can run it as an admin and it plays my music fine but that means I have to click through a UAC prompt and an iTunes compatability prompt everytime I run iTunes.
I am using an administrator account, I've checked my iTunes folder in Program Files and my music folder and I am the owner of both folders with full permissions (read, write, execute, etc). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I've looked on Google for some suggestions but I can't seem to get to the bottom of it.
The only thing I have noticed is that every folder on my PC is marked as read only - is this normal? I've gone into properties and unchecked the read only box and applied it but when I open it back up again the read only box is checked again! Even so, I CAN write to them.
Can anyone help?
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