iTunes - tell me what to do

[Bioture]

I just got about 35 gigs worth of music off a co-worker, and added them to my library on my work laptop. I found out a lot of these songs are duplicates from my own collection, so I deleted the dublicates and saved about 5 gigs of space.

Then I found out that deleting songs in the library means you still keep them in your harddrive. What should I do to remove these files? I've tried to "consolidate library" but this action actually copies all the music to your iTunes folder, not move them - and my work harddrive doesn't have that much space left.

Mac junkies, now it's your time to shine.

Worst case scenario: if I have to go through this entire list again and delete the dupes, how do I set iTunes to ACTUALLY delete when I'm deleting from my library list?

[DoTheFandango]

I believe at the time you delete a song it asks you if you want to delete the original file. If you didn't do this, the copy stays in your iTunes folder.

[Bioture]

maybe I clicked on "no" earlier. Where is this option in iTunes 7?

[geekbot]

When I press delete, iTunes asks "Are you sure" with Remove/Cancel/checkbox to "Don't ask again".

Then, iTunes asks, "Do you want to move the file to the Trash" with Trash/Cancel.

cmd-delete skips the first question.


PS You know about View->Show Duplicates, right?

[Scurvy]

the first couple times i got music from some friends i noticed that it was taking up a lot more space than it should be...when you put music on your computer, it copies it to your harddrive, then imports it to iTunes, so that you have it twice. if you go under your music folder, the only folder under that should be the iTunes one. if you have other shit in there, delete it. if you're IN iTunes, then you just have to select the "move to trash" option when it confirms the deletion of files.

[Bioture]

PS You know about View->Show Duplicates, right?

Yeah dupes aren't the problem. Some of the songs my coworker gave me have to be registered (is that what it's called?) and asks for a password to an email. I deleted those as well.

Plus sometimes I like having multiple copies of the song just so it's consistent with the album. Especially when there is a "greatest hits" album or "anthology" album.