Everything listed twice in iTunes

Everything (music, podcast, videos, etc) is listed twice in iTunes. I think I might have accidently listed add all the folders twice. But I can not find where the folders are listed so I can check and delete a set if that is what I did. Can someone please help?
Thanks.
Robert +

You can try this: Exit out of iTunes. Go to your iTunes music folder and look for the iTunes library file (*.itl). Copy that file to a different folder outside of the iTunes folder. Delete the library file in the iTunes folder. Return to the Desktop. Run iTunes. A fresh version of the program will run, and will look a bit alarming because all of your files will appear to have disappeared. Exit iTunes. Go to your iTunes folder and you will see that a new *.itl file has been created. Delete this file. Find the library file that you copied out of this folder and copy it back into the iTunes file folder. Return to the Desktop and run iTunes.
You could also do the above up to the point where you create the new iTunes folder and then import all of your music back into iTunes.
Good luck.

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