ITunes duplicating all my music?
Hello,
When I first got my Mac, I put about 75GB of music into the documents folder from my old computer, I then dragged it all into iTunes so I could sync with my iOS devices. However, I've just noticed that the music is stored in documents (where I put it) and in \music\iTunes
Is there any way of having just one copy of all the music? At the moment it's a complete waste of 75GB.
Thanks
Yes, you should be able to delete all 75 GB of songs from Documents without encountering any issues. When you drag the songs into iTunes, it copies the files into Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music so all your songs are in one place. You can then safely delete them from the original location.
But before you do that, make sure that is what will happen. Look through Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Music and make sure all your songs are there. Open iTunes, right click a song, choose Get Info, click the Summary tab and note the location of the file. All your songs should be in Music/iTunes... rather than Documents.
If you find you have some in the Music > iTunes... folder and some in the Documents folder, you can choose File > Library > Organize Library, then check the option to "Consolidate files." Once that is finished, you can delete all songs that lie outside of the Music/iTunes folder.
Let me know if that works for you.
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