Local Files on Mac

Hi. I'm on Yosemite. In Preferences / Local Files, I had iTunes switched on but Downloads and My Music switched off. Out of my 30,000 iTunes tracks, 22,000 were counted in "Local Files". I decided to switchon My Music and Downloads, based on what I learned from "Listen to Local Files" in the Spotify Help, and a few minutes later I was down to around 4,000 tracks (but with only 15 or so displayed). So I went back in and switched off My Music and Downloads, but left iTunes switched on. Now Local Files is completely empty, even after 15 minutes or so. What's up? Edit: A couple hours later, still no tracks in Local Files. Also, there is no such thing as "My Music" on the Mac. Specifically no folder includes those words. There is a Music folder however.

I solved it by turning off iTunes and "My Music" (the latter of which does not exist on the modern Mac) and using Add a Source to add the "iTunes Music" folder. Now it shows all 30,000 tracks. It looks like I have a CPU tax now...Spotify Helper runs at a constant 4%...I assume it's constantly checking for "iTunes Music" folder updates now. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions

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