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<blockquote data-quote="etchells" data-source="post: 1063725" data-attributes="member: 36097"><p>Hi there.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to try and sum this problem up as short as i can. I have a fairly large music collection (around 40GB) and is working wonders for me. But i noticed the other day that my music folder is taking up 80GB of space on my hard drive. This is obviously my music folder and the iTunes music folder...</p><p></p><p>I have a couple of questions.....</p><p></p><p>1. Why the **** does iTunes keep a copy of all your music</p><p>2. How can i get rid of this duplicate folder without losing all of my iTunes information</p><p></p><p>I know that within iTunes preferences there is a box to un-tick that doesn't copy files to the iTunes media folder when adding to the library, but because i have over 7000 songs already duplicated, un-ticking this wont do anything.</p><p></p><p>My initial thought on how to resolve this was to back up my music collection and remove the both music folders and re-import my folder back into iTunes whilst un-ticking the box for copying to the iTunes media file.</p><p></p><p>I was wondering if anyone has any better suggestions?</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p></p><p>Jonathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="etchells, post: 1063725, member: 36097"] Hi there. I'm going to try and sum this problem up as short as i can. I have a fairly large music collection (around 40GB) and is working wonders for me. But i noticed the other day that my music folder is taking up 80GB of space on my hard drive. This is obviously my music folder and the iTunes music folder... I have a couple of questions..... 1. Why the **** does iTunes keep a copy of all your music 2. How can i get rid of this duplicate folder without losing all of my iTunes information I know that within iTunes preferences there is a box to un-tick that doesn't copy files to the iTunes media folder when adding to the library, but because i have over 7000 songs already duplicated, un-ticking this wont do anything. My initial thought on how to resolve this was to back up my music collection and remove the both music folders and re-import my folder back into iTunes whilst un-ticking the box for copying to the iTunes media file. I was wondering if anyone has any better suggestions? Thanks Jonathan [/QUOTE]
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