Audio Storage Capacity Overstated?

[youai779]

Hi Guys,

I am at odds end with this problem as I am trying to free up some hard rive space as my MBP is nearly 3 years old and its getting a bit sluggish and I think this may partly be due to the 7GB of free space or less it operates with.

My concern is that in the "About this Mac" - "Storage" it reads I have 81.85GB of Audio but in my iTunes it says I only have 45.75GB of Music. Is it normal for this to be over stated with such a difference?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

 

[GGJstudios]

Hi Guys,

I am at odds end with this problem as I am trying to free up some hard rive space as my MBP is nearly 3 years old and its getting a bit sluggish and I think this may partly be due to the 7GB of free space or less it operates with.

My concern is that in the "About this Mac" - "Storage" it reads I have 81.85GB of Audio but in my iTunes it says I only have 45.75GB of Music. Is it normal for this to be over stated with such a difference?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

It's possible you have the bottom checkbox checked in iTunes > Preferences:

Which would mean when you add music to your iTunes library, it copies it. If you haven't deleted the original files, you have duplicates on your computer.

 

[youai779]

It's possible you have the bottom checkbox checked in iTunes > Preferences:

Which would mean when you add music to your iTunes library, it copies it. If you haven't deleted the original files, you have duplicates on your computer.

I do have it checked but I generally delete the music files after I have added them into iTunes. I can't find any duplicates. Is there a way to see ALL audio type files on a mac?

Cheers

 

[GGJstudios]

I do have it checked but I generally delete the music files after I have added them into iTunes. I can't find any duplicates. Is there a way to see ALL audio type files on a mac?

Sure, with a search in Finder:

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For clarification, I meant duplicates on your hard drive, not duplicates in iTunes.

 

[youai779]

Sure, with a search in Finder:

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For clarification, I meant duplicates on your hard drive, not duplicates in iTunes.

Ok, so I searched all audio files on my HD and its returned 47.45GB of audio files. My iTunes is showing 45.75GB so I can understand there may be a few audio files not added to the iTunes folder for whatever reason.

My storage information under "About this Mac" is still showing 81.85GB. From what I understand i am not able to see the 20GB of "Audio" files on my HD somewhere?

 

[GGJstudios]

Ok, so I searched all audio files on my HD and its returned 47.45GB of audio files. My iTunes is showing 45.75GB so I can understand there may be a few audio files not added to the iTunes folder for whatever reason.

My storage information under "About this Mac" is still showing 81.85GB. From what I understand i am not able to see the 20GB of "Audio" files on my HD somewhere?

The other audio may be related to Garageband, system sounds and text-to-speech voices.