Deleting iTunes

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Sorry for the newbie question. I've have a 1ghz G4 iBook with a 60 GB drive. I'd been building up a nice sized iTunes library and it got to be about 20 GB. I decided to slim it down and regain some HD space. I had 20 GB free so I deleted all 20 GB of iTunes thinking I should have 40GB available then. Well, I only have slightly over 20 GB that I had before. What am I missing? I figured maybe the files were being copied in a backup some where. But I have no idea. File Vault is Off so it's not that.

Any help is appreciated. I'm glad I stumbled upon this forum.
Thanks
 
Yes, Many times. There has to be a back up of the iTunes folder somewhere that I can't see. Rebooted, ran disk clean up and verification. Short of reformatting I've done it.
 
might I suggest the following command(s) [in a terminal window] at the root to find your music files

find -s * | grep '[Mm][Pp]3'
find -s * | grep '[Mm]4[Aa]'

Construct your regex/pattern for other music formats as well.

You can pipe those results into a text file.

You could also get dangerous if you like walking the wild side with something like:

rm -fR *.mp3 *.m4a <enter>
 
chornbe said:
might I suggest the following command(s) [in a terminal window] at the root to find your music files

find -s * | grep '[Mm][Pp]3'
find -s * | grep '[Mm]4[Aa]'

Construct your regex/pattern for other music formats as well.

You can pipe those results into a text file.

You could also get dangerous if you like walking the wild side with something like:

rm -fR *.mp3 *.m4a <enter>
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Thanks, Is there a command that will find deleted itunes files?
Those just turned up the ones in the itunes folder all of which are current.
I guess, I'm stuck with this being how it is.
 
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