Hard Drive Full Need To Transfer Media Library / iTunes to another Drive

Hi Ive read most of the post on here that I can find about installing or moving library to another drive. I Copied my entire contents of my Itunes folder to another drive and renamed my old folder. when i uploaded a track from a CD it was copied to the original destination and the new drive that i copied my files to. As i have limited space how can i correct this.
Thanking anyone in advanced for their help
Excuse me for being new to all this

Hello there,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Under the Advanced tab of iTunes Preferences did you make sure to change the location of your iTunes Media folder to it's new location?
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