Consolidating itunes wont work??

"Copying Files Failed. The file name was invalid or too small."
That is what i get when i try to consolidate my itunes. ive tried restarting my computer and updated itunes? HELP!

I got a similar message several years ago, except it said the file name was too long. But forgot to tell me which file! It took me a while to figure out what it was doing.
I finally realized itunes was copying all the files over by Date Added (you need to have itunes in either list or cover flow view to show this column). I was consolidating to a new drvie named Q:
After monitoring the Win Explorer folder on the new Q: drive, I noticed the last folder added was always Carole King.
So I opened iTunes, and the content I added after Carole King back in 2006 was a bunch of opera CDS that are stored in the Compilations folder. Maybe iTunes got into some kind of race condition trying to open and close the Compilations folder for all those opera CDs, and stomped on itself as it was closing and opening it.
It also may have been a problem with the diacritical in La Bohème.
I took the opera tracks out of the compilations folder and it finished consolidating.
So - look in your library, see what was added in the itunes list just AFTER the items the consolidate puts in your new location. That is the file iteuns is having probelms with.

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