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Help? iTunes is Locking My Computer

posted on September 15, 2009

I’ve tried everything over the past few days to fix this and now I’m coming to you to see if you might have ideas on how to fix this.

Without fail when I start up iTunes on my computer, after about 10-20 minutes everything freezes. The only way to fix is to power down the computer and start it up again. What I know

  • I’m running an iMac with the latest OS on it (including the patch that came out last week)
  • I tried downgrading iTunes back to8.2 and the install went fine but the locking continues.
  • I do have an Apple TV and Genius turned on. I turned both of these off (including unplugging the Apple TV) and still the freezing happens.
  • This began after the latest Snow Leopard patch
  • I’ve isolated it to being iTunes because if I start up and run nothing but iTunes it still happens and it happens every time I open it

Any help out there? I’ve Googled and looked but have not found it. Seems some people are having similar problems when playing World of Warcraft and trying to use iTunes, but that isn’t me.

Hoping someone might see this and be able to point me in the right direction or else it is a trip to the Apple Store for me because I can’t survive without my music. *grin*

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  • http://jrmerlin.com/ JR Merin

    Hi CC.
    I know you said that you’ve killed everything else on your system, but I had a problem with iTunes recently, at least I thought I did, and it turned out to be I Love Stars, an applet that allows you to rate music without having to tab back to iTunes.
    Could there be any other things (Last.fm, I Love Stars) etc that is running that you’ve forgotten to close?
    Hope it’s nothing drastic.

  • http://www.cc-chapman.com C.C.

    JR, thanks for the nudge. I realized I had forgotten about a couple of plugins.

    I since went in and deleted them out of the library and rebooted but still the same problem.

  • Levi

    Hey there,

    Have you tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes? If not, then that’s the next step.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224

    If that doesn’t do it, then you might just try doing a super duper back up of your entire hard drive and doing a complete clean install of your OS. If you just did an upgrade, there may be some kind of a pref file laying around causing the problem. A clean install is the best way to go.

    Also, be sure to repair disk permissions in Disk Utility.

    Hope this isn’t a repeat of anything you have already tried.

  • http://jrmerlin.com/ JR Merin

    I’m out of ideas then.

    Good luck.

  • http://zlinxlair.wordpress.com Zlinx

    My tip is: iTunes getting info from iNet = Beachball.

    iTunes playing music or anything else not using the net, is Ok.