Itunes libraries on new user account on Mac

Hi everyone, got a complicated one for you, or I think so. I bought my Mac from a relative. I set up users for all the family but I kept his user account and just changed it to be mine as an administrator. All was fine and managed to transfer my itunes data and sync my iphone and then it was the primary itunes library for it. But as time went on I was fed up having his name appear on the system when it should have been mine as I now owned it so I created a new administrator/user account for me and deleted his. Worked fab.
But then I tried to sync my iphone and it wont do it. It comes up with the message that my iphone is already associated/synced with an itunes library on the Mac and can only be associated with one library. The problem is I have no idea what to do now. Ive deleted the old user account, ive no idea where I can find out where on the Mac that library is etc etc. I have tried to transfer purchases from the iphone onto the Mac but it only picks up a very small amount of the music I ave on it. Can anyone help please. Hope this makes sense and thank you in advance. Operating OS X 10.9.2

The library was in the user account you deleted. You should have transferred the iTunes folder before deleting the account.
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. To use a device with a new computer you transfer the content from the old computer (or its backup) directly to the new computer, not the device to the new computer. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

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