Chrome – iTunes Launching Issue

I recently ran into the problem that many people have faced… When I clicked on a ‘View In iTunes’ button I checked the box that stated: Remember my choice for all links of this type. I then clicked the ‘Do Nothing’ button and BAM – I could no longer open iTunes through a link in Chrome. I Googled how to correct it, and saw that an extension was created to address and fix the issue, but I still had the problem after installing it. I then found the following instructions:

1) Close Chrome

2) Open \User Name\Library\Application Support\Google\Chrome\Local State in a text editor

3) Look for the line “itms”: true,

4) Delete this line and Chrome will prompt you (via the External Protocol Request box) to open iTunes links again

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5) Change the true to false and iTunes links will open without prompting

**Disclaimer** Remember to save the Local State file after making the change in steps 4 or 5. Don’t do a save-as or it could change the file type and screw things up.

Since I was using the portable apps version of Chrome the path in step number 2 was \Chrome\Data\profile\Local State. I made the mistake of completely skipping step 1 and tried to edit the file when Chrome was open. I couldn’t initially understand why the process wasn’t working after shutting the browser down and starting it back up. The file kept reverting back to its original state. Duh – everything worked fine once I closed Chrome, made the change, and launched the browser again.