Not all mp3s will backup to external hard drive

Earlier today I tried to back up my iTunes library to an external hard disk. A few tracks would not copy across because they were 'busy', although iTunes was not running at the time. It would be some tracks of some albums, often tracks 3 and 9 but sometimes others aswell. The albums were imported from CD some time ago. If I click 'Show Info' then the files that will not back up will not let me change anything, such as the file name or the colour label, although the permissions settings are the same. Please help, as it's very annoying to have a few tracks missing from several albums!

Just copy them over and then delete the originals
or
Download Carbon Copy Cloner and have that do it for you

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