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Why does iTunes take longer to close and show saving library on exit?

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Why does iTunes take longer to close and show saving library on exit?

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Sophos anti-virus may be the cause. First make sure iTunes is closed. Then do the following to allow Sophos to work with iTunes better. Adding an exclusion for the iTunes files. • Open Sophos • Click Configure Sophos anti-virus • Click “on-access scanning” • Click “exclusions” tab • Click “add” • Select “File” from the drop down list for item type • Click “Browse” • Click the “my documents” icon on the left of the window • Double click the “my music” folder, then double click “iTunes” folder. • Select the iTunes file “iTunes Music Library.xml”. • Click “open” (This will take you back to the Exclude item window) • Click “ok” (You should now see the path to your added file in the Excluded item list.) • (Repeat steps 5 through 12 for the iTunes file “iTunes Library.itl”. ) • Once both files are added click “ok” to close the On-access scan settings for this computer window. • Close Sophos • Try opening and closing iTunes to see if this corrected the problem. • If the problem was not resolv

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