Does disk utility repair delete any files on external hard drive?

Does disk utility repair disk delete any files on the external hard drive?

diskutil list
Last login: Sun Dec 21 16:07:46 on console
Justins-MacBook-Pro:~ justinmontoya$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         749.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *748.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 4A646B29-3794-4A34-AC98-C0FB505D402B
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 500HDD WD               500.1 GB   disk2s1
Justins-MacBook-Pro:~ justinmontoya$

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I want to be able to delete actual song files from my external hard drive as well as from my iTunes library in one easy, lazy step, via the iTunes window. I am not interested in finding and manually deleting the files through my external hard drive.
When I hit delete it only deletes the song from my iTunes library but not the actual destination music file aswell (from my external hard drive). I am aware this is because my external hard drive is not the original "Music\iTunes\iTunes Music" destination that the apple crew have designed and so I am not offered the option of sending the file to the recycle bin or "trashing it" when I hit the delete key (this permanently deletes the file).
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Camoracer,
You are right. Pardon me. The majority of the music that I was trying to delete off my external hard drive was in a separate folder (on the external hard drive), not in the directory specified in my iTunes preference settings.
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This should also be a lesson to those who believe a one step delete function (from iTunes library and actual music file) is not possible when the music files are stored on an external hard drive (or other storage medium for that matter). I have read a host of other forums who say a one step delete function is not possible without additional software.. Perhaps these posts were from the authors of the software trying to make a $.
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I am almost out of space b/c of a ton of photos & videos, and I have a time machine but want something else so that I can access & use the files at any time in the future to make videos, photo albums, etc.
I found an old post on here (pasted below) but I don't really get the 'alias' thing- can't I just drag all the files to a new folder on the external hard drive & delete them from the old folder rather than having to worry about creating a new folder with the same name so programs can access it?
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/Home/Documents/
/Home/Downloads/
/Home/Movies/
/Home/Music/
/Home/Pictures/
/Home/Sites/
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Do not do the above with the /Home/Library/ folder because the alias trick does not work with that folder.
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Steve, I think confused everyone by using the term 'backing up' in the title of my orig post. I'll try to use more correct terminology.
My problem arose when I attached my external drive device to my pc and 'copied' C: My Pictures' (which contains my images in a folder called All Images and my .lrcat) to external drive F:. I had two reasons in mind for doing this. I wanted to transfer my current .lrcat and All Images from my pc to my laptop via the external drive and I also wanted to have a (safe-keeping) 'back up' on the external drive.
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Message was edited by: Mark Hilderbrandt

Mark Hilderbrandt wrote:
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