A question about iTunes

[Diego440]

So I have iTunes at the office and I work on a Mac... a pretty good one at that.

Being a mostly PC user, I sometimes am amazed at how easy, efficient and fun is working on a Mac, but I also notice how much info the machine is running under the surface. Regarding this, I have about 27Gbs of mp3s loaded up into the iTunes thingie.

On with the question, dammit. I have a folder on my desktop where my mp3s are stored and load all of them onto iTunes, will deleting that folder equal to deleting the mp3s? Or does iTunes create a separate place where it stores them? I ask this because I've deleted some mp3s from within iTunes (and even okayed when it asks me if I want to transfer it to the trash), yet I go to that mp3 folder on the desktop and the file is still there.

Now, the hard drive is around 300Gbs, and I currently have about 120 Gbs of free space... I work a lot with graphics and ads, and most of them are at 300dpi, so I may eventually run out of space soon. So the other question is if I can delete that folder on the desktop and still keep my music collection.

Thanks!

 

[TheCracker]

• Click onto your desktop.
• Press 'Apple' key and 'N'
• On the new window that should have opened, down the left-hand sidebar you should have icons for:

Macintosh HD (or whatever you've renamed it)
Desktop
Applications
Documents
Movies
Music
Pictures
(and probably others too)

• If you click on 'Music' it should give you a folder named 'iTunes'
• Within that should be a folder named 'iTunes Music'
• Within that should be folders for each artist or album on your iTunes.

That's where the few albums are stored from when i first ripped some CD's onto my Mac at work just to get the hang of iTunes. If it's all in there it should be ok to delete it from your desktop.

Most all of my music is stored on iTunes on my PC at home, but i know it's stored differently on Macs.

 

[Diego440]

Thanks Dan!

It's all there, apparently.