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David makes an excellent point.

The preference he is speaking of is on the "Advanced" tab of iTunes's
preferences. It is "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to
library". Checking this box causes any media file you add to the
iTunes library to be copied to the iTunes folder.

I only always had this box checked which caused iTunes copy all music
into it's own file structure within the iTunes folder, but I
completely forgot that issue when I posted.

If you have added music files to iTunes that were already on your hard
drive but this box was not checked then iTunes knows where the files
are on your hard drive but it has not copied them to its own folder.

To get iTunes to copy files that it did not previously copy go to the
File menu > Library > Organize Library, check "Consolidate Library"
and click OK.

On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:42 AM, David wrote:

> The Apple suggested way to do this is to "consolidate" your library
> first
> and then import to a new computer.
> If you don't consolidate then you could have media scattered all
> over your
> machine that won't be transferred across.
> Sid
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Steve Kane <skane-l@skaneco.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 9:02 PM, timmytheimpaler wrote:
>>
>>> When I first set up iTunes and had it find my music, I had to do a
>>> LOT of
>>> editing of all the fields so the album name, artist, genre and all
>>> the stuff
>>> was correct. Now that I'm switching over to a new computer, I
>>> really don't
>>> want to go through all that again. Is there some file of iTunes
>>> settings
>>> that I can transfer over that contains such things? What else do I
>>> need to
>>> do to make the transition smooth?
>>
>> With the current version of iTunes 9.x and IIRC with the previous
>> version 8.x I have found that I can simply copy the entire "iTunes"
>> folder replacing an iTunes folder on a different computer, as long as
>> the iTunes versions are the same on both computers. Make sure iTunes
>> is not running on either computer when you do this copying. When
>> iTunes is launched it spends a few minutes doing some updating and
>> then opens normally with all my music and playlists intact. This has
>> worked for me moving from a Mac running 10.4.x or 10.5.x to and
>> from a
>> pc running Windows XP (service pack 3) as well as Mac to Mac.
>>
>> ymmv
>>
>> If you are going from a Mac to a new Mac you may want to simply let
>> the new Mac import your entire user folder from your old Mac. The new
>> Mac will offer to do this the first time you boot it; ie when it is
>> brand new and you have not yet gone through the setup and
>> registration
>> screens. This feature used to be called "Migration Assistant", maybe
>> it still is.
>>
>>
>>
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