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For a long time we have struggled with iTunes uncanny desire to place the iTunes library files (and artwork, etc) in the “My Documents/My Music/iTunes Music” folder.  While it was very easy to change the file location for the music files themselves, the library still went to My Documents. 

This was a problem for us because we use offline files to map our My Documents folder to the individual’s network drive.  Not a pretty picture having files in two places.  iTunes would often get confused and lose the library altogether.

I found a little tip today that seems to solve all of this.  Let’s say for example you have moved all of your music to your local hard drive in a folder called “My Music”.  Simply find your iTunes library, which is located in your My Documents/My Music/iTunes music folder and copy the iTunes Music folder to your local music folder.  Once this is done, hold down the <SHIFT> key while you open iTunes and it will ask for the location of your library file.  Just point to the new library location, and voila!  You are done. 

No more network and local confusion.  All of your file are in one folder locally. Of course this isn’t really a problem if you don’t have a network setup or offline files configured, but it is a big deal to us.