Auto Synch with music library?

Three questions actually:
1)I have single directory containing all my songs: D:\Matt\My Documents\My Music. I've told iTunes this under iTunes Music Folder Location and it appears correctly there. BUT a secon persond also uses the PC and has their own music library under their name.
iTunes has included songs from this other directory and I don't know how or why - any suggestions?
2) I'm always adding/removing re-tagging songs in this directory. How do I get iTunes to simply synch with whatver is there and ditch anything that's been removed?
3) The dirctory had 10,000+ songs but iTunes only shows around 8,000 - any ideas why? ALL files are .mp3.
Hoping someone can help

dolomite73 wrote:
1)I have single directory containing all my songs: D:\Matt\My Documents\My Music. I've told iTunes this under iTunes Music Folder Location and it appears correctly there. BUT a secon persond also uses the PC and has their own music library under their name.
iTunes has included songs from this other directory and I don't know how or why - any suggestions?
Can't help you with this one.
2) I'm always adding/removing re-tagging songs in this directory. How do I get iTunes to simply synch with whatver is there and ditch anything that's been removed?
3) The dirctory had 10,000+ songs but iTunes only shows around 8,000 - any ideas why? ALL files are .mp3.
I'm guessing these both have the same answer. It sounds as though you are doing things with your music files outside of iTunes, such as adding or removing files and retagging them. iTunes has no folder watching function. If you add files to the directly and not to iTunes, it won't know they're there. If you changes tags using another program, iTunes may not see the changes. You can often force it to but selecting the track on which you made a change, selecting Get Info and then pressing the ok button in the resulting editing window. Seems easier to me to just change the tags in iTunes.
If you're doing all your file manipulation through iTunes, then you may need to dig a little deeper to find the problem.
Best of luck.

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