{"id":5338,"date":"2008-05-15T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-fix-itunes-library-file-error-48\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:11","slug":"how-to-fix-itunes-library-file-error-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-fix-itunes-library-file-error-48\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Fix iTunes Library file error (-48)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;ll find iTunes to be an essential part of your working day. Whether I&#8217;m listening to my favourite podcasts or concentrating with the help of some soothing music, iTunes stays running all through the day. Which is why I started to become pretty worried when a recurring error started to appear recently. Each time I start iTunes, I receive an error warning stating that &#8220;<strong>The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (-48)<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/itunes-error-48.png\" alt=\"iTunes error (-48)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took me a bit of time to work out how to fix this problem, so I thought I&#8217;d pass on what I found. This error basically stems from iTunes not being able to write its Library file to your iTunes folder. To fix it, simply find your iTunes folder (located in My Documents &gt; My Music, in my case), right click the folder&#8217;s icon and choose &#8216;<strong>Properties<\/strong>&#8216;. From here, click &#8216;<strong>Advanced<\/strong>&#8216; and make sure that <strong>Fast indexing<\/strong> is switched off for the folder. Also, make sure that in the main properties dialog box, &#8216;<strong>Read only<\/strong>&#8216; is completely unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>This worked for me, but let me know if you&#8217;re having further problems  with error (-48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;ll find iTunes to be an essential part of your working day. Whether I&#8217;m listening to my favourite podcasts or concentrating with the help of some soothing music, iTunes stays running all through the day. Which is why I started to become pretty worried when a recurring error started to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-fix-itunes-library-file-error-48\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: Fix iTunes Library file error (-48)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2380],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionitunes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336122,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/336122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}