Music files taking up internal space

I am trying to free up space on my 80GB internal HD. I am at 65GB currently. I ran disk inventory and it reported 10GB of music under my desktop folder/emusic. I do have that folder on my desktop to keep track of my downloads then I empty it. Nothing is in that folder at this time. I have an EHD with 100GB of music. What should be on my internal in regards to itunes? My itunes runs perfect with my setup. I just want to remove those 10GB of tunes without messing up.

Unless you turned off the option in iTunes to copy tracks to the iTunes Music folder when adding a track to iTunes, and you changed the location of the iTunes Music folder to be that emusic folder, then iTunes will not be depending on any tracks in any other folder and you can safely delete them. You can confirm by doing a Get Info on the track listings in iTunes and looking at the path where it shows the tracks. If none of the listings point to the emusic folder, you can clear it.

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In my innocence, I had imagined that the storage requirements of iTunes would match those of my iPod. The iTunes programme now tells me that I have 6,694 songs in my library, using 46.43 GB of space. However, my iTunes Music directory boasts 10,278 files and occupies 75.7 GB of space, which is a real problem for me. Whence the discrepancy? When I delete files from iTunes I send them to the Recycle bin. So, what are these extra 2,600 files which occupy 35 GB of space that I cannot afford.
Help, please.

Thank you for the sensible suggestions, ed. However, it is specifically, and only, my iTunes Music folder that shows 75.7 GB; and that does not include music files stored elsewhere. Is it possible that when iTunes imports a file it stores it simultaneously both in AAC and in its original format? That would seem pointless and wasteful. As for deletion, the question is to the point and all I can say with certainty at this stage is that, when I delete a track, I click the button for deletion; so, it seems to me, these files OUGHT to be deleted. So, I remain bewildered. And irritated. And, unless someone comes up with an easier solution, shall gear myself up to go through those thousands of files individually...

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I have already backed up all the itunes files on two different external drives. And I have already set up icloud and itunes match. I am still paranoid about deleting the files from my MBP, but I need to free the space. What steps should I take to delete the files. And can I still keep itunes (w/o all the music files) on my laptop and access the music from the cloud? I know I can run them with the external drive plugged in, but looking for a way to do it w/o pluggin in.

I have tried that as well. The purchased songs are not in my playlists and they are still there. I manually deleted them on the phone but the sync puts them right back on there.
I only sync playlists and they aren't on there.

Hidden music files taking up SO MANY GB.

here is my plight:
i had too many duplicate music files. one day i went into my music folder and deleted as many of them as i could, along with gigabytes upon gigabytes of unliked/unused music. i got everything nice and re-organized (changed folder names) and itunes was obviously confused. i cleared the library, but said not to delete from the harddrive, and then attempted to import everything again.
REMEMBER: GIGABYTES OF MUSIC WERE DELETED, PUT IN THE RECYCLE BIN AND DESTROYED.
it tells me that there is not enough room on the HD to add all the music. i checked the C drive properties and sure enough, i was down to almost nothing on harddrive space where there was plenty of room before. now how is that possible, that by removing music files i would use up more harddrive space? somebody help a brotha out. i'm not actually a brother.
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By 'import' I assume you performed a 'File=>Add Folder' operation. If so, and the 'copy files to iTunes Music folder' was selected within your Preferences, iTunes made a copy of those files.
If you want to manage the folder organization in your own way, you need to trun off the selections that allow iTunes to do this, as well as the copy function.
Go to Edit=>Preferences=>'Advanced/General' tab and change your selections.

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My son has been using my wife's computer and has instaled several apps including a screen capture prgram called debut. Now the computer gives a message that it is out of disk space. I set the view options to "calculate all sizes". When I look at the contenst of the user folder, they do not add up to what the finder says is there. The finder says there 92 gigs used, but the contents as show only add up to about 45 gigs. So I'm guessing that one of these apps has installed some sort of "hidden" files. Searching around the community here, I saw it was suggested to use OmniDiskSweeper. When I run that it shows that my "Library" folder inside my wife's "User" folder is about 50 gigs. However, that "Library" folder is not visible in the Finder view. Does anyone know why that would be? Also, having used DiskSweeper to reveal all the files, how do I know what is safe to delete from that "Library" folder?

This is what I do....I open terminal and issue the following commands (you need to be an administrator)..it will take a few minutes to run since it's counting up space
cd /
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g
This gives a listing in GB at your root level
It should look something like this
MacPro:/ xxxxx$ sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g
Password:
1          ./.DocumentRevisions-V100
1          ./.fseventsd
2          ./.Spotlight-V100
0          ./.TemporaryItems
0          ./.Trashes
0          ./.vol
31          ./Applications
1          ./bin
0          ./cores
1          ./dev
1          ./home
5          ./Library
1          ./net
0          ./Network
0          ./opt
1          ./private
1          ./sbin
4          ./System
44          ./Users
1          ./usr
1          ./Volumes
85          .
85          total
I'm using 31GB in applications and 44GB in users. That's the majority. If you see big numbers in ./Volumes for example, that is the sign of a failed TM restore, etc...
Now I cd into Users (cd Users) and rerun the same command
MacPro:Users xxxxx$ sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g
1          ./bootadmin
44          ./xxxxx
1          ./Shared
44          .
44          total
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Now if I cd into xxxxx and rerun the command I get this
MacPro:~ xxxxx$ sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g
1          ./.cups
1          ./.dropbox
1          ./.dvdcss
0          ./.idm
1          ./.ssh
0          ./.Trash
1          ./Applications
1          ./Desktop
10          ./Documents
1          ./Downloads
1          ./Dropbox
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1          ./Movies
1          ./Music
12          ./Pictures
1          ./Public
0          ./Sites
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One more time in Library (cd ~/Library)
(truncated for brevity)
I have 7GB of application support and 12GB of mail
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Syncing music to iphone/ipad music seems to transfers but does not appear in my music file.

Basically im having the same issue with both my ipad and my iphone.
i've had to recently restore both as i had a lot of 'other' files taking up the space.
i also wanted to sync my music via itunes and my mac rather than via the cloud as
there is an option to compress the files to take up less space. basically time and time again
i have synced the entire library to both the ipad and iphone using all the different combinations of the options
i can think of. I.e manually manage music and videos, 128, 192, 256 kbps and at the end the same thing always happens.
after the sync while i have the phone or pad still connected to the itunes all the music appears to be on the device and i can play it through my macbook.
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Let's see, if I were having this problem, I would....log out of iCloud on all, reset them all (hold down the home button along with the sleep/wake button until you see the apple, then let go), then log back in to iCloud and see if that resolves it. Best of luck and let me know if it works.

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Thank you for your question.
I would suggest you back up your media card to your computer and then delete the files to see if anything has changed. Let us know what you discover.
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Not free but this is one option.
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I just bought my computer (macbook pro) a couple of weeks ago, and already i have used up 60gb of hard drive space. I took a 3 minute video, and it said on the information that it took up 2.16 gb of space! this is outrageous - and it never took up this much space on my pc. is there anything i can do to make files take up less space?

lenabean54,
If it is a digital video camera (DV cam), imported footage will be about 20 GBs per hour, regardless of the camera. HD is an entirely different story, taking up much more space.
Storing this footage on your computer is not ideal. Most people use external drives to accommodate any significant amount of DV footage, thereby eliminating the limitations of relatively small laptop Hard Drives. If you are going to import footage to your internal Hard Drive, get it edited as soon as you can, then export to some compressed format, either DVD or Quicktime.
Although much smaller than DV footage, photos can begin to consume significant amounts of disk space. Take all the photos you like, import them into iPhoto, but keep everything organized and "archive" what you don't need to keep on your computer to CDs/DVDs.
Music stored in your iTunes library will consume whopping amounts of disk space, and if you purchase videos to watch in iTunes, it gets even worse. Stay on top of this, archiving any videos you have watched to CDs/DVDs.
Scott

Itunes is copying/converting 500gb of music from .wma to .m4a files that are on an external drive onto my laptop which doesnt have enough room. how do i reroute these newly converted files somewhere with enough space for them?

itunes is copying/converting 500gb of music from .wma to .m4a files that are on an external drive onto my laptop which doesnt have enough room. how do i reroute these newly converted files somewhere with enough space for them?
new to itunes, used windows media player before that and always ripped music directly to an external hardrive and accessed it through the player. now that i downloaded itunes it is taking from the external hardrive and copying a second file for each song onto my lap top hard drive which does not have the capacity for all my music. as itunes converts music files i want them saved back onto my external drive or another location i have space for rather than the lap top. how do i change the setting to move the itunes media folder to another location. assuming that hitting copy and past and dropping it in a random location will cause a few errors.

When I have done this, all I did was network the two machines and copy the contents of the iTunes folder to the other machine, and that's it.
My understanding (which may not be 100% correct) is that the one file that is absolutely necessary is iTunes Library, and that the XML file is actually a copy auto-generated from the iTunes Library, appearing in a different format only for non-iTunes apps that take advantage of the iTunes Library data.
As far as I know, if you simply have the Library (database) file and all your original music files, iTunes on that computer should operate as it did on your old computer. I believe that the Album Artwork, Genius Data, and XML files can be regenerated from the Library file. Not sure about the Extras file.

How do I move music files from the startup disc to iTunes in the other internal hard disk os 10.5.8?

How do I move music files from the startup disc to iTunes in the other internal hard disk os 10.5.8?
The music I want to move was in iTunes but is now just files. I had to reinstall a new iTunes and lost all my old music.
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That article is about using your iPod as an external hard drive, to move files from one computer to another computer. It is not related to your question.
You can't use iTunes to move song files from iPod to computer, except for songs you purchased from the iTunes Store (and you can also re-download purchases). However, there are third-party methods and utilities that can move song files from iPod to computer. If you do a Google search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links.
Once the song files are on your current computer, add them to that computer's iTunes library by dragging the files (or folder containing the files) to the iTunes window. After confirming everything is there (and fixing the data issue you mentioned) you can sync the iPod. You may want to do a Restore on the iPod, if it might have a data corruption issue, which will erase the iPod's hard drive, re-install the latest software, and set it to defautl settings.

Moving Garageband Music Files to MyBook for Mac External Hard Drive on OSX 10.5.8 I'm a musician and need to make space on my mac hd. Is it safe to move music files there and delete them on the mac? Thanks!

use a MyBook for Mac external hard drive.
I need space on garageband or the entire hard drive, since I am getting the "need space on the hard drive" messages.
It's scary to move my precious music files!
How should I move them to the external and feel safe about doing so?
Or are there other methods besides the obvious, clearing caches, deleting the trash and downloads, etc., that are recommended?
I am doing music now and producers are waiting for the new vocals!
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The process is as simple as just copying your Garageband project to the external drive and deleting from the macs hard drive. But before you delete anything you really need to back them up to someplace else also. Having just one copy is not safe. Get another external drive, DVDs or even flash drives, you absolutely need anything important in more then one place.

Can I change the file path that itunes reads my music files from? 65000 files trying to be transferrd from external to internal HD. I dont want itunes to manage my collection, just read it. thanks

Can I change the file path that itunes reads my music files from?
I have about 65000 music files that i have transferrd from my external to a new laptop internal HD.
I have organised the folders myself as I use a PC and do not want itunes to organise the folders because when I'm searching through music on windows it is sorted out by artists/albums with 'the...(eg The Beatles)' under 'T' instead of 'B'.
Long story short.... Is there any way that I can keep my itunes library as it is on the external HD and copy it to the new laptops C drive, keep all the info (playlists etc) and still have the same folder structure as on the external HD?
Or, is there any way of making windows sort things in alphabetical order like it is in itunes (eliminating the 'the' issue)?

The files that weren't inside the media folder on the original machine need to be copied over to exactly the same paths as they had on the source machine. See this thread for an ongoing discussion of a similar problem. See also this post on migrating the iTunes library.
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HT1449 Now that i have my iTunes backed up on iCloud and iCloud Match running, can I delete the music files from my MacBook Pro? It is running out of hard drive space.

When I started this request in the Support section, I did not realize I was typing a subject into a header. Sorry.
My MacBook Pro is nearly full and I would like to rely on iCloud for my music with the hope of freeing up space by deleting the music files I have accumulated on this machine. Can I just delete the files in the iTunes folder or is there some special procedure?
Thanks in advance for your help on this.

When I started this request in the Support section, I did not realize I was typing a subject into a header. Sorry.
My MacBook Pro is nearly full and I would like to rely on iCloud for my music with the hope of freeing up space by deleting the music files I have accumulated on this machine. Can I just delete the files in the iTunes folder or is there some special procedure?
Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Files deleted, but still taking up disc space.

When I delete files from my ext HD or USB flash drive the files are no longer visible but they're still using the disc space. I deleted everything from my 1G flash drive this morning, it was full, to be able to put different files on it and when I started adding the files I got a message telling me that there was no room left on the drive. The info bar at the bottom of the window even showed that there was only a small amount of disc space left, but there were no files to be found. I'm still in the process of the PC to Mac switch so I still have my old PC and use it from time to time. In order to completely delete these files I have to plug it in to the PC and delete them there. Only then is the drive actually empty. The same thing happens with external HD. Will I have to continue to be tied to my PC because if this or can this be fixed.
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Hi Matt, I haven't tried that with the flash drive yet but I did with the ext HD a couple of weeks ago and it wouldn't let me because it said the the files were locked, I even tried the "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" command in the terminal and it still wouldn't allow me to empty the trash, I didn't have the proper authority or something like that. That's when I discovered that once I ejected the HD the trash was suddenly empty. I plugged it in to the PC and emptied the "Trashes" folder, and back to the Mac and they were gone. Could it have something to do with the fact that these files, mostly music files but some PDFs and Word files, are coming from a PC, even though they're all Mac compatible?

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