Remove old iTunes folder

Hi there,
I moved my iTunes library a couple of years ago now to an external hard drive and
all works well.The size of the iTunes folder on this external hard drive is 31G
I am having a cleanup of my iMacs internal hard drive and I notice there is still
a iTunes folder there which is about 5G.
It it safe to remove the iTunes folder from the internal hard drive?? Why is it still
there???
Many thnaks
Andy

What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660 More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391 iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
Read the above links (sorry about the formatting but Apple's recent site software update is a mess and broke the way dragging formatted text works and I refuse to hand format every single post). They tell you what a complete iTunes library is.
Make sure you have a complete library with all necessary files on the external drive. Some people confuse moving only media with moving a library (not helped by hundreds of web sites and instructional videos doing the same). If you have everything on the external drive you can delete the library on the internal drive (make a backup first, just in case). If you moved only media then the library files on the internal drive are active and important. You may still have old media on the drive.
One thing to observe is items do no get deleted unless you delete them. "Moving" between drives is not the same as moving inside a drive. Moving between drives is only copying with you having to do the delete.

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