Delete songs from iTunes, how can I get it to ask me if I want to delete it from the hard drive?

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Delete songs from iTunes, how can I get it to ask me if I want to delete it from the hard drive?

I'm extreley frustrated. I just want to clean up my itunes and delete songs. If I right click on it and press delete, or if I press delete after highlighting the song; either way, it will not ask me if I want to delete it from my hard drive. I just want it to ask me like the help file says it should.

The long way is incredibly frustrating. I have to find it on hard drive first, delete it there and then come back to the i tunes list and delete it from there also.

Windows media player is sooo much easier at this. Can they please fix this?

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 2, 2013 5:37 AM

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Answer 1

Chris CA

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Dec 2, 2013 6:25 AM in response to TrainmasterG

iTunes prefs > Advanced.

Click Reset all dialog warnings.

Note that iTune swill only delete ongs if they are in the iTunes medai folder location shown in iTunes prefs > Advanced.

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Limnos

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Dec 2, 2013 6:50 AM in response to TrainmasterG

A related scenario (but not the answer to yours):

Resetting iTunes Store warnings - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1734

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Answer 3

Dec 2, 2013 9:23 AM in response to TrainmasterG

Another issue to consider:

iTunes asks whether you want to delete the music files from the drive only when you're deleting from Library/Music, the main music file near the top of the left sidebar.

It won't ask that question if you're deleting from a playlist.

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Chris CA

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Dec 2, 2013 9:52 AM in response to Jumprightin

Jumprightin wrote:

Another issue to consider:

iTunes asks whether you want to delete the music files from the drive only when you're deleting from Library/Music, the main music file near the top of the left sidebar.

and only if the file is located in the iTunes media folder location specified in iTunes prefs > Advanced.

It won't ask that question if you're deleting from a playlist

It will if you Shift Delete (Windows) or Option Delete (Mac).

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