Duplicates in 2 music folders

Me and my sister both have I-pods, we share the same i-tunes but have different folders eg. Hannah's folder, Lukes folder.
Recently my sister discovered that my music had gone into her folder, however duplicates had not been made. I went on to my folder 1 week later and discovered her music had gone onto my folder plus the music which I had and she had on her folder. This created a number of duplicates (up to 5) aswell as this the duplicates had been put on to my sisters folder along with my music however if I uncheck songs on my music folder which my sister has on her folder it will uncheck both...How can I sort this out?
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