Duplicates and mismatched cuq points/data files

PLEASE HELP PIONEER. I am having the same issue but with over 9000 files i spent over 6 months adding all the cue points

@Reid > "Same issue" doesn't describe what you might have done to move things around in any capacity -- rekordbox doesn't lose / move / change the files from iTunes, and duplicates indicate that they have been imported a second time. Can you please provide some additional detail as to what you might have done with your collection for this to occur?

thanks for the reply! as far as i know, i didnt do anything. i added songs with no problem last sunday. then thursday, i went to add new songs. when i went to load the itunes library, it said the XML could not be read. i checked the path and it was correct. i checked the XML path in itunes, which was having no problems of any kind, and it showed that everything was correct (set to share) however, the harddrive/path had inexplicably added a 1 (not displayed in the name, only in "get info")  to the name of the drive where the music is stored. i do not know how this happened and am unsure why this didnt cause any problems for itunes. anyway, i quit rekordbox and reset the itunes media path to the correct name of the drive. this had no effect on itunes. i opened rekordbox again, and it seemed to find itunes and start the import no problem so i thought all was ok. i was only trying to add 10-15 new songs that had just been put into playlists in itunes, but when i checked back, rekordbox was re-importing the entire library. the original files in rekordbox that had already been cue-pointed and such showed up as [!] missing. it had already imported 3600 of about 9000 songs. this caused massive panic. after hours of reading forums today and asking friends  for help,but finding no answers, i opened rekordbox again. this time the newly imported files were missing. i did a "search for duplicates", checked that path, found all of those were set to the path of the HD that had added the 1, so i deleted them all, and quit the program. thought that fixed it... but now ive reopened it, and though the original songs all play ok, when i go to import from itunes, it now again says the XML cant be read... 

hi @pioneer do u have a remedy? i was shocked u answered so quickly on a Sunday, but now it's regular business hours and radio silence... please help if you can, this is my job and i cant find any answers anywhere else :/

The added "1" -- is that an external drive, and do you possibly have two of them with the same name?

i don't. ive only had & used one WD MyPassport 3 tb for 2 years... this is the drive that all of itunes library lives on, yes it is external. however, in years of using rekordbox, i've never before encountered this issue. if i reset the path in rekordbox, (which is now showing as pointing to that non-existent (1) drive again) will it fix the issue? or will it trigger another re-importing of all the files?

@Reid > The addition of the "1" to the volume name is because the OS recognized it as being a duplicate, so it had to add it to differentiate between it and another drive by the same name, whether you had two physically connected, or there was a hiccup where the first mounting didn't remove itself when you connected the drive.

You can simply select all your tracks and relocate them all in one go because the path difference is at the top, not a difference of folders being changed. Follow the instructions in my video here.

Provided the paths are all matching between the XML and the collection, you shouldn't lose anything.

i reset the path, and it appears to be working. thank you so much for your help!