Transferred iTunes library and everything duplicated. Help!

by VictoriaSF
(San Francisco)

Question:

Hi,

I have about 5,000 songs in my iTunes library. I bought a new computer a few days ago and I had my old hard drive installed as a second drive on my new computer. Both computers are PC. The new computer is Vista.

I copied my songs from the old hard drive to the music folder on the new computer's main C drive. I thought I would keep the library on the old drive as a backup.

My old songs all imported perfectly. I then bought 5-6 new albums from iTunes.

Then iTunes asked if I wanted to organize my music and find all music on my computer. I said yes and suddenly I have 2-3 duplicates of every single song. My library is now 13,000 songs.

What can I do? If I reinstall iTunes, won't the same thing happen again? I need to maintain the new albums I just bought and deal with the duplicates.

Thanks for your help.

Answer:

Hi Victoria,

I suggest you you make backup of your songs you purchased from iTunes store, delete and install a new iTunes.

After installation transfer your songs from the old computer to the new computer but check 'No' when iTunes asks to organize your music for you.

Daniel Dwase

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