Transferring music has locked iTunes But I want the music in my account.

I transferred my music files overnight from an older mac to a new iMac using migration assistant.  But it saved the music files in a new account ( from the old computer) which I don't want to use. So I copied and dragged the music file into the new account name files. But then after doing that iTunes won't open. I just get the iTunes locked message. I have checked that the permissions and sharing options for the music files and library are all set to read and write by everyone. 2 days in. Going to cry. All I want to do is move my music to my new computer. I'm about to wipe the new computer, and give up... Any ideas?

The suggested threads took me to someone who had fixed this. Although I thought I had changed permissions, clearly I had not done it for all enclosed files. Thanks..

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