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Those with MACS can you tell me how iTunes stores music?
The reason I ask is that my hard drive is nearly full, and its a 320GB hard drive.
When "in" iTunes the total size of the music library is around 80GB. Also checked my (i)Photo library and its around 30GB. So whats eating up the other 200GB (not pron)? it cant be the OS and programmes can it?
Ive got the odd word document/pdf/excel file here and there, so say another 10GB max and also microsoft office for mac installed, so wheres all my memory gone?
I have a feeling my iTunes library could be duplicated as a result of various re-installs. I have check "show duplicates" in iTunes and there's about 8GB worth which I will sort through, but a lot of this is the same tune but on different albums. Some also stored as Mp3 which i will go through and convert to AAC/mp4 to save space.
The way I have my iTunes and photos set up is so both users can access them, so they are both stored under
[i]MacintoshHD/Users/Shared.[/i]
I checked in iTunes where it is looking for the library and it is in
[i]MacintoshHD/Users/Shared/music/iTunesmusic[/i]
and when you go to this folder there are artist name folders, some of which you can click on to reveal the individual mp4 files, some of them which you cant and appear to be empty folders.
If you go back up one folder level to
[i]MacintoshHD/Users/Shared/music/[/i]
as well as the iTunes music folder there are also artist name folders, some of which you can click on to reveal the individual mp4 files, some of them which you cant and appear to be empty folders.
So why do I have my music seemingly stored in 2 locations, 1 being a sub folder of the main music folder?
Any other way I can find out what is taking up so much memory?
Had planned to convert all my vinyl to mp3, but nowhere to store it now, and with a new DSLR the photo library is gonna get bigger rapido!!
Grab a copy of omnidisksweeper and it'll tell you pretty quickly where your space is...
Edit: And don't convert mp3s to another format if you value quality. The music's already been compressed using a lossy format (mp3) - compressing to another lossy format will just lose even more quality.
Get the app Daisy Disk, really good at telling you what's taking up space. Can't remember how much I paid for it but I use it a fair bit across my Macs and it's really useful.
Grab a copy of omnidisksweeper
or.......
click go > 'all my files' in the finder
make sure your in the list view rather than icons or columns
click view - view options - calculate all sizes
then arrange the list by size so that you can see where the big items are