Music downloads to desktop

Hello! I saw a post similar a long time ago but cannot find it. Forgive the duplicate question…
Music is downloading to my desktop – how do I stop it? Music files had to be cleared from my computer due to a glitch and I need to transfer the music off my iPod to iTunes again. Have found downloads to do this, but they're copying all music to my desktop.
It's been doing this for a couple of months – does anyone have any idea which setting I changed?!
Many thanks for your suggestions,
Simone

Check the iTunes Music folder location setting in the iTunes Advanced preferences. If that points to the Desktop, that's your problem. Point it back to your user's Home -> Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Music folder. Then make sure that the option to "copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" is set in the iTunes -> Advanced -> General preferences and use the Consolidate Library command under the Advanced menu to get iTunes to put everything into that folder.
Hope this helps.

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