Help with iTunes 7.7.1?? Please?

Ok, so when 7.7.2 came out, naturally I wanted to update. I did not expect my entire hardrive to be hidden and duplicated. To this day, I still have not sorted and deleted all my files yet (this happened about 2 years ago). I know, sad. I've been scared to update ever since because I have a lot of files on my computer. Now, this really weird thing has been happening. My computer was asleep for awhile and when I came back to use it again, it had restarted. No one touched my computer! Then, I opened up my iTunes and for some reason all my songs started duplicating.
I have no idea what's going on. As a result, I only have about 50 GB of free space left because my songs got duplicated and renamed. It's so annoying!! This happened 6 times already and I swear I'm about to go insane!! Help me?

Bonnieeee wrote:
Ok, so when 7.7.2 came out, naturally I wanted to update. I did not expect my entire hardrive to be hidden and duplicated. To this day, I still have not sorted and deleted all my files yet (this happened about 2 years ago). I know, sad. I've been scared to update ever since because I have a lot of files on my computer. Now, this really weird thing has been happening. My computer was asleep for awhile and when I came back to use it again, it had restarted. No one touched my computer! Then, I opened up my iTunes and for some reason all my songs started duplicating.
I have no idea what's going on. As a result, I only have about 50 GB of free space left because my songs got duplicated and renamed. It's so annoying!! This happened 6 times already and I swear I'm about to go insane!! Help me?
hi bonnieeee and welcome to Apple discussions !
you seem to have serious probs across the board and my advice would be this:
a) let's worry about all your duplicate files later
b) get a reasonably sized external USB drive (they are fairly cheap these days, yet i would opt for quality if i entrust my precious media to one - stay away from WD drives, get a LaCie or Iomega).
c) move your iTunes folder to it using these instructions.
d) completely remove iTunes using these instructions.
install the latest version of iTunes. you will probably have to also install safari 4 for it to work properly.
if you are feeling bold enough to go this route post back when done. we'll see about 'em dupes next

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