Primary desktop is no longer recognized as primary

So i sync'd my phone few days ago on my desktop and it was perfect. today, i went to do another full backup/sync and it says it was previvously sync'd with Jason-Desktop. this is my current computer name. computer has not changed. i did however make a change in preferences default folder to point to the itunes folder that has the actual imported data.
it was previously pointing to default. however all my music had been imported from a bigger internal drive i have. so i just changed to point there. my small SSD was getting filled up so was just trying to cleanup and stuff. not sure if that could of caused this or not but i dont want to wipe and resync. then all my music i purchased and ringtones i have feeling wont get transfered. any ideas on what is going on? i also noticed when i opened itunes it only had music from icloud. i had to reimport the music again.
am i just out of luck and have to wipe and re sync? thanks

Itunes on Windows store all files (library) in one location. You can see location in itunes preferences, click Edit- preferences- advanced. If you moved library to other drive you may need to point it to other drive. If memory serves me right, you can do that with opening itunes and holding shift key at the same time. It will ask you and you will have to point to new library location. If that is what you have done so far and some changes did occur, you may have to go through erase and sync one first time, but since you tell us that you had to reimport music from icloud, you didn't really move library properly or didn't get itunes to recognize it properly. Recognizing it is what I would try now.

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