Why Do I have duplicates Files !?

Hi Everyone
I've messed up somewhere.
I've just upgraded to Iphone 4S got Ipad and subscribed to Icloud, within the same week.
Big Mistake!
after trying to organize some files and synchronize my Idevices , my files are a mess !!
1 - I have duplicates music files in the Iphone music Library
2 - I have duplicates apps in Itunes application folder in my mac.
This is probably partially due to the fact I moved the entire Itune folder to nother location ( needed disk space ) although I made sure to relink it via the
Itunes / Preferences / Advanced.
Can Anyone help me sort that mess out ?
Thanks
David

...This is probably partially due to the fact I moved the entire Itune folder to nother location ( needed disk space ) although I made sure to relink it via the
Itunes / Preferences / Advanced.
You're not supposed to do it that way...
The way recommended by the support doc ht1449 is that you tell iTunes where you like your media stored from now on, then tell iTunes to consolidate all the media to that new location. Lastly you get to clean up the originals left behind on the source drive.
The way that generally works best is to move the entire iTunes folder to a new location and then reconnect to it by holding down option (shift on Windows) to choose the library.
Do the duplicate entries in your library work, or are some broken? Did you reimport the media folder after moving it?
You should be able to find some useful tools for cleaning up over at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ or there is this post which explains how to remove dupes by hand (and, less usefully for you, the genesis of a Window removal script).
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