This is an excellent article about how to move iTunes libraries.
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/>
or
http://bit.ly/Q3Nn>
I'll give you the quick answer too. You should have simply changed the
location in Preferences and allowed iTunes to update the library (database)
file. By importing from the new location (drive) you added all the entries
*in addition* to the existing ones, hence all the duplicates.
If you had a backup of the iTunes Library *file* from before the change
then you could reinstate that and start again but I'm guessing that isn't
an option.
Delete all songs from iTunes but do *not* delete the files. Then add the
entire iTunes Media folder back in via iTunes > File > Add to Library. You
will lose any playlists but it will be fairly quick because you are just
adding entries back into the database, not moving files.
Otto
On 25 February 2013 21:32, Bob Newman bobnewman@cox.net> wrote:
> This is an iTunes question but I'm putting it here because it affects my
> iPhone.
>
> I have switched hard drives where my music is stored. Whenever I try and
> play a song in iTunes I get an error message that it can't find the song
> (it is still looking for the old nonexistent location). I have redirected
> iTunes to the new location and imported the songs correctly. iTunes now
> shows each song at least twice, once with the correct location, but the old
> listings are still there in effect showing a bad listing for each song
> also. Is there any way to get iTunes to test each link and erase the bad
> ones automatically? There are too many for me to do individually. If that
> cannot be done can I just erase the entire library good and bad and then
> re-import the correct locations from scratch? If so how? (I am a rookie).
>
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