Itunes library is way to large

Hello,
I have a 12 gig music library with about 2 gigs of video. For some reason, my itunes file weighs in at 18.8 gigs. (via command-i), I can not figure this out. When I delete some sogs in my library, I sometimes do not select "Delete the file". Is there a way to sort this out?

Janet
This
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#listfolderfilesnotadd ed
applescript should help. It will find all the music files in your Music folder that are NOT in iTunes.
Regards
TD

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