ITunes duplicates whole music library

Hi everyone,
I have just moved to a SSD to use in my Mac Mini. The drive is too small to store my iTunes library so I am using a external HDD to store the library on. I copied the whole iTunes folder to the external drive from my backup, then openned up iTunes and changed the location of my iTunes library to the location I saved the iTunes folder on the HDD. I then selected file>library>import playlist and imported the 'iTunes Library.xml" file and iTunes went to importing everything, and its still going. The thing is, iTunes has decided to create a new folder called 'Music' in the iTunes folder and copy all the music to it. This means I have an 'iTunes music' folder and a 'music' folder which both contain the same music, and take up a whole lot of hard drive space.
Is this normal behaviour? And when iTunes has finished importing everything, which folder should I delete?
Cheers
Tom

You don't change the location from inside iTunes. That just changes where iTunes puts the media but not the whole collection. Note the difference between the two procedures below (you should use the first one).
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
do not confuse moving your whole folder and library with moving just media files as in
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Quick answer if you let iTunes manage your music: Copy the whole iTunes folder and all its subfolders and files intact to the other drive. Start iTunes with the option key held down and guide it to the new location of the library.

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