Any I.T Gurus out there?

Hi ladies
I just bought an external hard drive (Yay!)

I have managed to move about 20GBs worth of photos across, as well as my microsoft documents etc, but STILL have about 40GBS or so of stuff left on the computer, and I assume quite a bit of it is our music (Itunes etc) I really cant figure out whats taking up so much space?

Now, if I drag all the music files across to the external hard drive, will I need to then extract them every time I want to listen to them?
Im sorry if its a blonde question, Im sure soon enough it will all make sense to me.
I am just trying to make more room on the computer so it runs faster, and I cant figure out why I still have so much GBs been used up. Ive been to "Add-remove" programs and there doesnt seem to be too much on there either. Maybe 2GBS at the most?

Argh.... If anyone can help me please?

When you move the music files onto the hard drive, you will have to "tell" itune (as it will think the music is in the same place)

What I tend to do .. as I have over 50GB of music. Is to take out ALL of the music files .. then import the new folder.

I would also move the Itune application itself onto the hard drive (as the library copies imported music and makes a file where the application is located, and thats usually the c drive, which you are trying to empty).

Its not a quick process ... but it will help in the long run.... I know what you are doing tonight lol

Thank You.

You did make sense in the first post as well.

I started transferring them over before i read this, there seems to be music in millions of little sub folders So now I know why.

I AM going to have fun arent I?!