Itunes taking up all my memory on my computer

I bought an external hard drive (drive J) specifically for storage of my itunes and have change my importing location to that drive. However, when I look at the properties of my C and D drive on my computer, the C drive still shows tons of memory left but the D drive only has like 4% of space left. My computer is starting to run very slow but all I really have is my itunes. I believe the D drive is a recovery drive. What do I do to clean that up without losing my music so my computer does not run slow?

Changing the location of the iTunes Music folder in the iTunes preferences moves the location to which new imports and purchases will be saved, but does not just by itself move your existing content there. To do that, you use the Consolidate Library command (under the Advanced menu).
You might want to read through this article:
iTunes: Moving Your iTunes Music Folder
before you proceed.
IMPORTANT: do not delete the iTunes folder or the preference files it contains from your boot hard drive; delete ONLY the tracks themselves (i.e. the contents of the old iTunes Music folder).

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