ITunes Media folder is not copying files. What should I do?

I had made a new user on my mac and due to this i had to add music from my old user. To do this, I moved the iTunes media folder to my Applications folder and then added it to my new iTunes library on the new user. Now I wanted to share the music from my new user to the old one but I couldn't. My iTunes media folder does not contain the latest music (I think it didn't copy it). I think I messed up the main folder settings. Can someone please tell what to do without risking my new user's music library and add the new music to my old user?

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