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It also crashes with locked files
Authored by: VRic on Dec 04, '04 08:58:41PM

I once had many mp3 files that were locked ("lock" checkbox in the Finder's info window) and I noticed that editing their tags would fail and take iTunes down.

I unlocked all my mp3 files so I don't know if it was fixed in recent versions of iTunes, but it seems consistent with other reports here: songs currently playing may appear as read-only for other threads and heavy CPU or disk load may trigger time-out events on write attemps.

There definitely seems to be something wrong in iTunes when tag write attemps don't go as planned. I believe it handles read-only disks correctly (by not trying), but anything else seems to come as a surprise.

On a side note, crashing is a computer's expression of surprise. I think Apple should have created a "surprised mac" icon for crash dialog boxes instead of the most famous bomb. It would have been consistent with the happy and sad mac icons and would have been less frightening to novice users.



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