ITunes Library Manager X album art

I use iTunes Library Manager to manage 40 separate iTunes libraries (I have a LOT of music). I have secured album art for all of my music, some secured by iTunes itself, and some retrieved by me using Google Images and cut & paste. I only just noticed that an Album Art Work file has been created for each library, and each Album Art Work file contains all the album art for all the songs in all the libraries, so the same 2.3 Gig file exists 40 times on my computer. On my Mini, that takes up about 2/3 of the hard disk. Does anyone have any experience solving this problem?

OK, I'll try ... have you used AppZapper? It removes all traces of the application (but check in Spotlight just to be sure it's all gone) , so if you delete iTunes and reinstall it from your back-up disc, you should get back to normal. The other thing you can try is using OnyX to find any invisible files that might be causing the problem.
I'm sure you've thought of these things, but nothing else comes to mind.
Miriam

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