[Jim Paradise]

I'm trying to clean up my family's computer as they, well, don't maintain it. In particular I'm going through their iTunes Library and deleting duplicate and unnecessary files. We have two 20 gig drives on an old G4. What I would like to do is copy about 3 gigs of music from the OS X drive to the older drive that has the rest of their mp3s. However, if I do simply copy them, I'll have to add them again to the Library and recreate their playlists. Is there anyway to copy these files to the other drive and have the copied files replace the originals in the Library without messing up the Library/playlists?

(My apologies if this is should be in the Applications forum. I figured the transfering part is more of a system procedure.)

[wataru]

I'd set iTunes to organize their music, and then within iTunes move the music folder to the other drive. Then if there are duplicates already in the iTunes music library, use the find duplicates feature to weed them out.

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by wataru

I'd set iTunes to organize their music, and then within iTunes move the music folder to the other drive. Then if there are duplicates already in the iTunes music library, use the find duplicates feature to weed them out.

You know, I had never realized that there was a find duplicate songs feature! Thank you.

[wataru]

Yeah I think it's a relatively recent addition. Maybe iTunes 4.7-ish.