Add media to library by cutting it, not copying

Hi everyone,
I wanna get back to my roots and use iTunes again to play music on my Windows 7 machine. My music collection is very large (~ 150GB) and because I don't have too much free space left, I don't want iTunes to add the music to its library by only copying it (because then it would take more than 300GB space on my hard drive which I don't have), but by cutting it, so it completely moves the files from one place to another.
I don't find an option for that. Can you help me?
Regards,
Jonathan

One option would be to simply move the files you want to add into iTunes into the *Automatically add to iTunes* folder. Alternatively disable the option *Copy to iTunes Media folder when adding to library* under *Edit > Preferences > Advanced*. You can then import the files leaving them where they currently are. A third option is to arrange the files the way you want them inside the iTunes Media folder before adding them to iTunes. Use this if you want the benefit of a portable library while maintaining your own file & folder name structure. (Turn off *Keep iTunes Media folder organised* if you want this)
If you've already used the second option above but want to consolidate the imports then I've written a script called ConsolidateByMoving which is designed to do pretty much what it says.
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