Connected to backup hard drive and library copied names twice for each song

I use my externaly hard drive to keep a backup copy of my music library and when I was last reformating my laptop the itunes library added a second copy of every song which was located on my hard drive to my itunes library. My hard drive is not often plugged in to my PC so my itunes library shows that I have doubles of every song, even though it can't find the location of half those songs. Is there anyway to remove all the second copies of each song without losing the contents of my library file? If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

kosty wrote:
For the past year I've been using an external hard drive (HD1) connected to my airport extreme as the back-up location for time machine. This has worked fine without any issues.
That may be true, but you need to know that backing-up that way is unreliable and not supported by Apple. See: Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk. Do not be surprised if those backups suddenly turn up corrupted.
What I am wondering is if I direct my time machine back-ups to HD1 will it back-up both my mac HD as well as HD2?
No. Time Machine cannot back up from any network location. The 3rd-party utilities CarbonCopyCloner and ChronoSync may be workable alternatives.

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i put iny spanish to, because i feel my english is not so good, but i hope you understand me.
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