Any I.T Gurus out there?
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Topic: Any I.T Gurus out there?
Posted By: Snappy
Subject: Any I.T Gurus out there?
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 4:05pm
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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? ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 4:07pm
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Ok, I have just right-clicked on my Itunes folder properties, and there is 26GB of music ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 5:12pm
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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  ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 5:27pm
I just re read my post and I make no sense 
I would ..
Mostly because any music that you import from a cd is converted. Itunes saves these converted files into a folder which is usually in the same place as the application itself (which is usually your c drive). Hope that makes more sense. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 5:34pm
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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?!------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 9:52pm
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You could do a windows search for all audio files, select them all, copy, then paste them onto new harddrive ------------- 
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