Sharing my iTunes acct with my Daughter's new iTunes acct

I have an iTunes account. I share it with my wife and daughter. It resides on my iMac. My daughter has an iPad. I just set her up with her own iTunes account and want to move her iPad onto it. I don't want her to lose ANY of her music, apps, pictures etc. Can this be done? How? Thank you for your time in advance.

Items purchsed through one iTunes account are permanently associated with that account and cannot be transferred. 
Now be careful to be exact when using terminology.  An iTunes account isn't on your computer.  An iTunes account is an Apple ID and purchases at hte online store.  Items purchased are downloaded to your computer but the account is online.  On your computer you have your iTunes library which is a set of links pointing to media and purchases stored on the computer.  Different users of a computer may also have their own user area or computer accounts, each of which may have an individual iTunes library, or can share a common library, or alternatively a common set of media pointed to individual libraries.  You can see why it is essential to be specific in asking questions about his.
If your daughter is now going to start syncing to her own iTunes account through her own library in her own user space you can do a limited amount of file moving.  The media will still be associated with the old iTunes account but as long as she is careful about not misplacing themedia there will be no need to go back through that account.  There's probably a lot more detail but I use an old iTunes and have no devices so I am just reporting on what I have read.

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