ITunes folder won't move to new mac

Received my new mac and have tried to port over my itunes folder from my old pc. I used an external drive, and opened finder and tried to drag and drop my 'itunes' folder into my music folder on my mac and I get the warning message: "the operation cannot be completed because the item 'iTunes Library Genius.itdb' is in use"
I don't understand what the problem is. I have closed iTunes on my Mac, there doesn't appear to be anything else running....
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Many thanks

The Apple instructions don't mention at all what to do with multiple users; I assumed following their instructions that it wasn't necessary. This doesn't seem to be the case. I now see that there is a iTunes Library.itl file under each user's iTunes folder in c:\users\[username]\music\itunes. I searched the public music folder, there is no itl file in any of the subfolders, though all the same music folders & files seem to be there that are also in each user's music folder.
So should I be copying over both of these user music folders in addition to the one under users\public? Up to now I've only copied the public music folder.
Thanks,
Mark

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