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OS X 10.4.3, iTunes 6.0.1 on a 1G Mini G4

iTunes is duplicating songs all by itself. Every time I open it, more tracks have been replicated. This eats up a lot of hard drive space. What is going on?

[cybergoober]

iTunes - Preferences - Advanced - <checkbox> Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library

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This computer SUCKS. I don't know why it ****ed up that thread just now... when I hit the space bar between "I'm" "not" "sure" it entered a new post for each word. And, no, I didn't hit Enter three times by mistake.

I'm not sure I understand your reply: "iTunes - Preferences - Advanced - <checkbox> Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" -- are you saying I should have this box checked or unchecked? It's checked right now.

iTunes isn't duplicating songs as I add new ones. It's duplicating old songs that have been in there for a while. Say I haven't added any new songs in two weeks, but I've been listening to iTunes every day. Suddenly, five to ten songs that I'd added months ago show up duplicated.

Also, when I burn CDs, my computer thinks they're still in the drive. If I burn three CDs, one after another, ejecting them each time, my desktop shows that I have all three CDs in the drive. Even though there are no CDs in the drive at all. The finder shows that there's a CD in there, and I eject the invisible CD, and then it's OK.

[cybergoober]

Ah. Well. Hrmmmm. That's quite odd.

I had thought perhaps, with the box checked, you had music outside the iTunes Music folder that you had added and iTunes was copying it.

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This is happening to me as well. Odd. What I did, which was not a fix was this: Show duplicates, then click on the tab that shows songs by date added and delete all the songs which were added in July, since I have stolen NO music in July. The last song I stole was in June.

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Update. Everything.