Q: My music is in 2 locations
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Jan 16, 2014 7:37 PMby Limnos,You have to be careful. There's multiple possible scenarios. The simplest is at some stage in the past you moved your whole iTunes library to the external in which case it is probably safe to delete it from the internal. However, you could have just media on the external and the rest of the library on the internal. Or worst case, some of your media on the internal and some on the external with duplicates in one location or the other just to add to the confusion.
Key to doing anything is to make sure you have a complete backup of both drives (you should anyway).
Unfortunately iTunes doesn't have a way of sorting by file location. You can right click a track and tell it to show it in Finder to see where the file referenced by the track in iTunes is actually located, but it will be a drag to do this for a whole library.
Another way is to decide where you actually want everything located. You can then consolidate your media to that location. Say you want it on the external. Consolidate to there then delete media (not the whole iTunes folder) on the internal. An extension of this is placing all the files on the external.
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 11 for Mac: Change where your iTunes files are stored - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12165 - more information at: - and steps 5-8 in
