Duplicated songs when moving itunes library

I reformatted my computer and when I installed itunes it duplicated all of my files twice, so now I have three of each song. All 3 are playable, yet there is only one copy of each song in my music folder. Could anyone help me find an easy way to solve this please? I don't want to go through and delete all the duplicates!
Thanks

The best way to move an iTunes library is to copy the whole iTunes folder and all the files and folders it contains to Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music
By putting it in the default location (and probably replacing the existing iTunes folder there) it will appear when you next start iTunes. If you already have music on your Mac you can give the two iTunes folders different names and then later integrate them into one.
iTunes stores apps in Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music > iTunes > Mobile Applications which is part of the whole iTunes folder contents you just copied.
To make sure you can check: Where does iTunes Save iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Apps on Windows & Mac

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Does this article help: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305451 ?

When I double click on a song in my iTunes Library i receive the following: the song "....." could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?

Greetings all
When i double click on a song in my iTunes library the following appears:
The song "......" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
Hope you can help
revds

This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
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tt2

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iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=824308
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"The iPod cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13019)."
It was working just fine. Then all of a sudden this error message popped up.

Try here:
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The following Knowledge Base articles provide some assistance with locating content in your iTunes Library:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
and
Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1391
If you have already reviewed those steps and still cannot find the songs you purchased from iTunes, delete the songs and download them again using the information in this article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12491
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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any suggestions on how to fix it

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=447043
Tried but as yet no success. Tried re-naming the iTunes Music Library.xml and also deleting com.apple.frontrow.plist from Library and letting it rebuild without any luck.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408

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Duplicated songs when moving itunes library

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