iTunes: unable to authorize and unable to download media

Posted by cbrulak on Super User See other posts from Super User or by cbrulak
Published on 2009-12-08T20:53:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 15:50 UTC
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When I try to authorize my iTunes account on Snow Leopard (10.6) with iTunes 9.0.2 I get this error:

"There was an error storing your authorization information on this computer the required file was not found or has a permissions error. Correct..."

And if I try to download something from the iTunes store, I get this:

iTunes couldn't download your purchase.You don't have write access for your iTunes Media folder or a folder within it...."

Edited

Permissions:

Inside "/Users/cbrulak/Music/iTunes":

-rw-r--r--@ 1 cbrulak  staff   3211  8 Dec 14:05 iTunes Library
-rw-r--r--  1 cbrulak  staff  12288  8 Dec 14:05 iTunes Library Extras.itdb
-rw-r--r--  1 cbrulak  staff  32768  8 Dec 13:48 iTunes Library Genius.itdb
drwxr-xr-x  4 cbrulak  staff    136  8 Dec 13:48 iTunes Media
-rw-r--r--@ 1 cbrulak  staff  14040  8 Dec 13:49 iTunes Music Library.xml
-rw-r--r--@ 1 cbrulak  staff      8  8 Dec 14:05 sentinel

Inside /Users/cbrulak/Music:

drwxr-xr-x  8 cbrulak  staff  272  8 Dec 14:05 iTunes

Any ideas?

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