Music Folder Larger than iTunes Library

Not quite sure how to word this so I'll give it my best shot.

When I open iTunes and show my entire library I have a total of 2856 songs for 7.96GB. (A good chunk of that is audio books ripped from CDs at lower quality) However, when I go to my iTunes Music Folder in my users directory I'm showing just the Music Folder is taking up 8.05 GB.

Yesterday my Music Folder was almost a gig larger than my library but I've gone through manually and found duplicate songs in the music folder and deleted them, a real pain! But I can't seem to find the remaining duplicates that must be causing the sizes to be out of whack.

Any suggestions?

Posted on Aug 14, 2005 7:57 AM

17 replies

Sep 22, 2005 5:00 PM in response to Mike Evangelist1

The trouble with dupes is that the machine fails to see idiosyncrasies

in style among other , for the computer , intangibles . I'm frankly

curious how well this stepped approach will improve the perception

of the machine . Just asking
Frederick

Nov 25, 2005 5:00 AM in response to Mike Evangelist1

Hey Mike :

I finally accomplished those suggestions you made here

without managing to place my natural distractions into the

process and Voila ! From 38 gigs to 27 . Ever so excellent .

Tis true it was a little work to clear space , but you gotta

if you wanna . May the info be with you , F

G5 Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 Seagate 160 G and Seagate 300 G Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Music Folder Larger than iTunes Library