Transferring Music

[Kordeth]

Hello,

I just bought a brand new MacBook and wanted to get some music into my itunes. Using a flashdrive, I transferred 8 GB of music into my "music" folder. When I selected "Get Info" on this folder, it correctly stated that there was 8 GB of information stored in the file.

Next, I dragged the music collection into my itunes library. After a short wait, everything had transferred. Itunes told me that I had 8 GB of music in my library, so thus far all was well.

However, I selected "Get Info" on my music folder again, but this time it said that there was 16 GB of information stored in the file. There isn't two copies of everything in the music folder, so I am not sure why the size doubled after I copied things into itunes. Anyone know how I can get this back to 8 GB? Do I need to delete something somewhere?

-Thanks.

 

[lbj]

By default, iTunes automatically copies any songs you import into it's own file structure (and coincidently, it stores these copies in the music folder as well). That is why your music size doubled. To return to 8 gigs, just delete your ORIGINAL folder. If you don't want this duplication in the future, you can disable the function where iTunes automatically manages your music in preferences. But to me, that kind of defeats the power of iTunes.

In the future, after you import songs into iTunes, just delete the originals.