Organise Music in itunes

I have just bought a new laptop and transferred all my music from the old computer by copying the "My music" folder and then pasting it in the same folder in the new laptop. I was using itunes in my old computer but the music was very unorganised and I found itunes to be very complicated so i didnt bother also. In the old computer there were some songs which i had marked as compilation. Now I want to organise my itunes in the new laptop. So I started by updating all the track info and I 'undid' all the tracks marked as compilations so that I may review each one again. But now i see that the info I have changed in itunes is not reflected in the original folders and that they still have the old info. When I 'undid' the compilations for all the music I thought that the compilation folder in the main music library will get empty but this has also not happened. There are still the same albums in the compilations folder. It took me a lot of time to update the info of all the tracks and now I dont want to lose it. It will be real help if any of you can teach me in organising my itunes. Many thanks in advance.

Go Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and check the box for *"Keep iTunes Media folder organized."*
When this box is checked, any changes you make to the tags will be automatically reflected to the filenames and folders (assuming the songs are in the designated iTunes media folder).

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