Itunes 12 update wont allow album editing

I have recently changed my computer, but all my iTunes media is backed up on a separate drive.
I installed iTunes onto my newer pc running windows 7.
after hours of sorting things I managed to reinstall all my media.
The problem is some of the album artwork is missing, not a problem normally, so I did what I always did to try and copy and paste it into iTunes, but to no avail.
I then tried to edit some songs, again not able to do so.
I went onto forums that suggested there might be issues regarding permissions to files and folders, I sorted this so all my permissions are full.
I then read that folders are read only, so again I unchecked the box for read only for the full iTunes media folder.
windows then sorted this after about a couple of minutes.
But still no joy, when I go back into the properties of the iTunes media folder it still has the box checked for read only files.
Is there some sort of default to this as I apply the changes and windows changes the folders and files accordingly at the time.
but as soon as I come out of the properties its defaulted to read only again and I'm wondering if this is why I cannot edit or change anything in iTunes?

See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.
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