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when i moved my music on to my imac i did it in two parts woth where 20gig or so the first load i forgot to get itunes to automatically copy and store so its in its own music folder. the second part i did remember and it put it all neatly in to it own itunes music folder. this was ok but recentally i spent 4 days cleaning out my itunes of all the rubbish songs and renaming the unnamed songs. thoses files i got rid of that itunes had copied were deleted off the computer (good thing) but the ones in the music folder wernt this is now a problem as i deleted 8 gigs of random songs that are now sat somewhere in the music folder clogging up myspace. is there any way to get itunes to transport ALL songs in its libary to its own folder? if i could do this i could just delete the music folder and i would have an extra 8gig free. if i can do this what would happen to the files that in the music folder where called unknown but in itunes i had renamed? would i loose all my hard work?

Answer 1

When you post can you put in a few sentences and not one huge long rambling one? This is very hard to read and understand.
I think I know the problem. The easiest way to fix what you have which seems to be - some songs are in the music folder (or more than one folder possibly) and not in iTunes and you want to get rid of the song files, and some might be in iTunes but they are gone from the music folder so eventually if you select them in iTunes you will get the missing song message.
Drag all your songs again from the folder into iTunes. Copy all the song files into one folder - essentially consolidate them all into one location even from multiple folders.
Go into iTunes and delete everything in the music view, all artists, all genres all albums.
Send to trash when it asks, and don't empty the trash.
Now from the one big folder with all the music in it - if you can, first root through and delete stuff you know should never go back to iTunes. If it is all jumbled up then don't.
Drag the whole new, big, consolidated folder to iTunes to start importing all of them.
Make sure they are all in properly and then using the proper method of deleting go through and delete, selecting send to trash all the losers that you want gone , from iTunes and the Mac.
With iTunes properly set to make its own music folder and organize it you will have one proper iTunes library with the songs you want - the source giant folder can be trashed as can the trash from before be trashed.