Changew with consolidate in iTunes 11.1.5.5

Before I upgraded iTunes some days ago, all the songs where consolidated in W:\iTunes\Music\<Artist>\<Album>
Now it goes in W:\iTunes\<Artist>\<Album> which makes it a lot more inconvenient to look for files in windows explorer.
Any idea how I could revert without removing iTunes ?

problem solved, NVIDIA graphic driver, the latest version 335.23 was debt. I reinstalled one of the previous versions 326.80 and now iTunes displays videos as usual and perfect. It is not always the best, to have all software upto date, to the contrary it can be fatal, although all support assistents recommend this.
hftango

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