Delete songs from disk but not itunes

Alll mu music (150G) is in iTunes/iCloud, which is great for my iPhone 5. However, I have a classic iPod (120G) that won't sync unless the music is on my hard drive. So, I started downloading the music onto my hard drive but ran out of space... so I'm wondering how to delete the music from my hard drive but not iTunes so I can reclaim the hard disk space.

You can do what you say you want to do on the face of it, but it doesn't make sense.  Yes, you could, if you wished, delete the media files in your iTunes folder that are associated with a particular entry in your library.  You would then see a trimmed down version of the entry in the iTunes window and of course a message that the file could not be found ( a ! ).  I'm not sure why you would want it this way in your case.  The bottom line is, if you want to sync to your device the media files have to be on the computer.  If there are files you do not wish to sync you can delete them.  You can add them to iTunes again later but they will be put in as new entries so you will have to re-create playlists that contain those entries.

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