Do manually entered metadata become lost/overwritten when transferring my library to a new external hd?

will manually entered/adjusted album and song metadata become lost/overwritten when i transfer my itunes library to a new external hd?... assuming that i follow apple protocal for the procedure? i'm nervous about losing all those minute adjustments i have made over time to my library's music!
any assurance would be GREATLY appreciated!
cheers

If you follow Apple protocol to the tee you should be fine...that being said, I've never had a perfect experience when moving my library. I recently followed this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449 and for the most part the outcome was exactly I had hoped for. In my case, I moved about 80,000 pieces of music from one external HD to a second external HD. I did it all from within iTunes and everything seemed to work. When I compared my source and destination folders however, there were about a thousand files that didn't show up on the destination disk.
The files that didn't come across weren't recognized by iTunes, even though they were MP3 files. After some research I learned that iTunes is particular about certain tags that it doesn't like. I'm still working on the issue and actually have an open question on it which I wrote yesterday if you care to see.
I don't know if I was that much help but I will say that by following the instructions referenced above, I had a very good transition considering the number of files involved.
Good luck,
JB

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