I-tunes: Disk full, but it's not! Please help

[BarbC793]

I recently moved my I-Tunes music folder to an external hardrive on my network. Everything has been functioning great, but when I tried to make a purchase from the Itunes store today, I get the following message when trying to donload:

**The disk you are attmpting to use is full**

However, my preferences show the new location, which has over 150 GB available. I have not had any trouble adding to my library from other sources. My laptop has over 14 GB available, same as my Ipod. I cannot see where the source of the problem is. I have tried:
*restarting Itunes
*restarting my machine
*repairing my disk permissions

None of these have eliminated the message and allowed download. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Barb
Mac G4 OS X (10.8.4)
I-tunes 7.0.1

 

[bunga]

Wow OSX 10.8.4, when did that come out? Sorry I'll just correct you, it's OSX10.4.8

BTW, did you try to download it to a different disk? But I guess once iTunes is set to use a path it's hard to change.

So try this for a temporary solution.

Move the file 'iTunes Music Library.xml' from the music folder to another folder
Open iTunes, (you won't see your songs at this stage) select a path in the options to play iTunes music from a different harddrive you have your songs on now
try the purchase and see if it will download to the new destination
if it does, place the original 'iTunes Music Library.xml' back into the music folder and relaunch iTunes.

All your original songs will be back in there
Then locate your new purchased song in the finder and drag it into iTunes Library

if the message about not enough space comes up again, then it seems like there is some other issue with the harddrive maybe...

This should not need to be done each time you purchase though, so if the process was successfull and copied the new song into iTunes this way, you may need to rebuild your iTunes data base by removing the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' all together and relaunch iTunes and place all your songs back into it. Select in the options where you have your songs located. Just drag the entire iTunes folder into iTunes and it will rebuild automatically; good luck

 

[BarbC793]

So, I probably can't convince you that I am alpha testing 10.8.4, huh?!

Thanks for the correction on my version number, but more importantly, thanks for the suggestion for correcting my problem. I followed your suggestions this morning, and everything is working great now. I really appreciate your help.