Deleting music

Is there any way itunes will delete your music files in itunes music in your music documents folder? Ive always had a copy of all my music in a seperate folder but now that ive gathered a large collection (21.7GB) its kinda adding up on my hard drive? Should i leave it or could itunes dump all my mp3s? Trying to free up my computer. thanks

Once you instruct iTunes to manage your music (see options), all of your music files will be copied to the iTunes music folder. So there is no reason to keep a separate folder on your hard drive. But be sure to make regularly backups of your music files (DVD, external hard drive,...).
If you want to delete a song within iTunes, you will be asked if you want to remove the file from your library and leave it on the hard disk or if it should be removed completely.
I hope this answers your question.
  Windows XP   iPod mini 2nd gen.

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