start up disc is almost full.

Did you empty the Trash after deleting your 14,000 songs? Whether or not you think you did, do it now to make sure.

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You can click the Trash Can in the Dock this will open it, you can then see what is in it. If you find it is full then close the trash and hold down the mouse button on the Trash Can for a couple of moments and then choose Empty Trash. To double check if its empty repeat the first step.

Regards,

Roger

Choose "Empty Trash" in the Finder menu.

How did you delete the original songs, hannah? is it possible that you simply deleted them from the iTunes library, but not from the computer itself?

Further, when you brought the 6000 songs back what format did you import them in? You can check this by opening up iTunes, making sure that "Kind" is selected in the View > View Options menu and looking in the relevant column. Different encoding formats take up very different amounts of room. If you have imported them as AIFF files, for example, then they will take up a LOT of space.

You might also want to make sure that you don't have multiple copies of the songs installed on the computer. Enter the name of one of the songs in Spotlight and see if multiple copies are present.

You might also want to check that it is the Music which is actually taking up the space. Head to your music folder, and use "Get Info" from the Finder > File menu, to check whether its contents are large enough to explain the full drive..

There are other things that can lead to the loss of HD space that don't relate directly to iTunes, so if the above approaches don't reveal an answer, post back.

Cheers

Rod

In iTunes, go to "file" in the menu bar and then highlight "display duplicates". You can then delete any that you like.

In that case, add any that are not in your iTunes Library to that library, then delete all copies that are outside the library.