How to manage iTunes files.

I uploaded music from a hard drive borrowed from a friend.  At first all was well.  Now I have music in personal iTunes files that I did not put there and certain music files in the main file cannot be accessed because the file is not complete.  This seemed to happen after I upgraded to the latest version of iTunes.

Mattm333 wrote:
Thanks!
A great article and helpful even though somewhat outdated.
Just a little, not had time to update the screenshots, but the content is still good.
It did not address the physical folder layout on disk.  iTunes just wants to center on Artist instead of Album.
Yes it does... Often all you need to do is add a common Album Artist when Artist differs from track to track on the same album.
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