HT3847 Using 'Grand Perspective' to see my files, I have both iTunes media and iTunes music files.  It seems I have 'organised' my media, but should or need there still be both types of files?  I am running out of HD space and thought, maybe, 'merging' .

I'm trying to free up disk space.  When I look at my files using 'Grand Perspective' (Like 'Disk Inventory X'), I see songs in both iTunes music and iTunes media files.  I'm wonder if there is some kind of duplication between them.  Could I find HD space by doing something with these files?  I've already 'organised' them using the iTunes library feature.  But I note that it seems that organizing could leave the old (?) files in their 'original place'.  That sounds to me like duplication.
I'm not at all a 'techie' so don't know where to go from here.
Henry

You are asking several different questions. If you need to store your photos, music, and movies on an external volume, you certainly can. Any externally connected hard disk drive will work, connected either directly to your Mac or to your Time Capsule as a shared volume.
You should not rely upon using that as a backup device though. Although you certainly may use it for both purposes, it is a better idea to have dedicated backup devices for a variety of reasons not limited to redundancy. You would not want to simultaneously lose all your pictures as well as your backup. If they are all on the same device, that could happen. Furthermore, a backup cannot back up the volume on which it is running.
As for adding an Extreme or Express, using its LAN port for your iMac, and then enable Internet sharing so you can effectively use the iMac as a "hotspot", you can do that too, but I am unclear on what benefit you believe this arrangement would convey for you.
An Extreme's Guest network is separate from its Main network; that is the reason for having it.

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