Help Itunes is mutiplying my file size by ten

Re: 64 bit version on iTunes?
Posted: Jan 21, 2008 11:29 AM in response to: saturn51 Reply Email
** Hello folks new here, but not that new to itunes but when I loaded music into Itunes it doubles the amount of mb for the file by ten and uses up all my hard drive. For example one song that I have stored on my external drive says song is 3.59mb, but when I look at it in itunes or on the hard drive that itunes copied it to says it is 35.9mb.
Ok so for the next question, I thought that itunes didnt copy the file unless you checked the box to do so, mine is unchecked and it countinually does so. So now I have wasted 60g (not counting when it mutiplies its well over 100g) of space as opposed to 30g which is what I have in music.
I have many times tried to uni and reinstall itunes but I can not get it to work right. I am downloading 7.6 My computer is running 32 bit vista even know they advertised 64 on the stickers.
I need help, want to load some new audio books but cant in fear of losing everthing on my Ipod now, and that would suck before I head out on my trip.
Thanks for the help
Clint

Well, I seem to have solved my own problem. Do I get 10 points, I wonder? It appears that my poor iMac was in desperate need of a masssive cleaning. Thanks to other posts here and elsewhere, I found out about Cocktail, a free download -- unless you chip in for the more advanced version. This is a powerful and easy to understand tool. I used it to perk my iMac up to a level I have not seen in a LONG time. The spinning beach ball of death must go play elsewhere. Among other things, I cleared out all my caches, eliminated a ton of foreign languages and did several repairs, including tracking down and killing a corrupted permission. It also taught me how to tap into my computer's activity logs and gave me other useful insights. GOOD stuff. I did other things not related to Cocktail to free up processing power -- such as turning off file- size view option in Finder -- but Cocktail is what solved this problem. As I type this, I am happily listening to songs that earlier would not play. What a relief. I am now especially looking forward to that new RAM. We'll be blazing fast then, by gum.

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