Multiple libraries on hard drive

Let me preface this question by saying I am a novice user and so I don't know all the ins and outs of using this computer. Having said that, I have two locations for my computer library. When I purchased my imac I transferred my information from my macbook. Now I have two libraries on my hard drive and one is 6gigs and the other is 9gigs, one is also inside the systems folder and the other is just on the HD. It won't allow me to delete either one because it's still pulling from both of them. Can anyone tell me if this is an issue or is this something that I just have to live with?

That's normal. Leave them as is.
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Hi Kirby-
My IMac is 10.7.5 Aperture 3.4.5
My MacBook is 10.8.5 Ap 3.4.5
Guess it's been a while since I've posted.
Thanks,
J

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So in the past year I became a mac convert and I use my mac mini for just about everything I can. I’m thinking of buying a new ibook when they come out in march/april and have a question about itunes for anyone who can answer.
I currently have about 80 gb of music on an external hard drive that I plug into my mac mini. Obviously I wouldn’t be copying all this music to an ibook hard drive because then I would have verry little space left for applications… But I wouldn’t mind being able to copy some music onto it for when I’m on the road, and having the rest on my external for when I’m home. However when exploring itunes there doesn’t seem to be away to have multiple libraries on different drives.
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Coastal,
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