Moving iTunes - problems

Does anyone have any suggestions.........

About 4 months ago I fitted a second (larger) harddrive to my old Inspiron 1720 as I had a feeling the old one was on the way out (feeling was right ).

When I did this I moved my huge iTunes folder over from the main harddrive over onto my new harddrive which I had read on the internet should be a piece of cake.
THEY WERE WRONG!

Moving iTunes within the same computer is an utter nightmare, and after 4 and a half hours of sweating (I've had an iPod for years, and now have an iPhone) I finally got my iTunes working again, complete with all my videos, apps, purchased songs and albums, and playlists.


I now have my new Acer 8940g and of course want iTunes on this computer so I can continue synching my iPhone with a computer on a regular basis. After talking to the helpful people yesterday in the Apple Store in Norwich I thought I had it completely figured out, so went home, copied my iTunes folder (after organising it via iTunes as I had been recommended to do) onto an external harddrive, and then copied from that to 'My Music' on my new laptop.

Booted iTunes this morning and have found most of my music and videos is there happilly............
However.........
Most of my artwork has gone AWOL (not too much of a problem), along with all my apps, 7 audiobooks (3 of those are 46CD's of Lord Of The Rings), and some recently added videos. When I think of it that is most of the stuff I have put into iTunes since I moved the main directory from my C Drive to my E drive.

Do you good people think that iTunes has been putting my new files in the old location as well as the new? If so is there any way I can simply copy those files from their location and simply drop them into the iTunes folder on my new laptop?


I love iTunes, but it's inbuilt security features make the friggin program so damn difficult to move to prevent illegal copying of music. I wish Apple would consider the fact that some of us do end up owning more than one computer in our lifetimes.

 

Honestly, if I were you, I would try WinAmp instead of iTunes. It's much quicker and more responsive in Windows, and natively supports copying music and playlists to (and from!) your iPod, with album art and everything.

 

Doesn't really answer my question though does it?
Winamp will apparently not update my iPhone software with the latest versions (essential for me because I don't have a jailbroken iPhone), so the question still rests on what to do with my iTunes problem.

 

Well i have an iphone and I just keep itunes to update and puts apps on it, while using Winamp for music purposes. Once u use a good music manager you'll realize how bad and slow itunes is.