Deleting iTunes from External Drive

[GoCubsGo]

I have two external drives that contain my iTunes library. On one drive the library contains about 3 gb more content than the other as I switched drives and just started using one over the other.

One drive is a MyBook 400gb, the other is a Lacie 160gb. The MyBook has the "outdated" library on it. It also only has about 50 gb space left on it. The Lacie has about 14 gb space left so I decided to just copy my iTunes folder from the Lacie to the MyBook. As it turns out I was given an error that there's not enough space on the MyBook to do this despite the fact that I am copying a folder with the same title on both drives. I would have anticipated the message would be asking me to replace not to replace. No such luck.

I then deleted the iTunes library from the MyBook, however, even after unmounting and mounting the drive it still says there is only 50gb left. I searched the drive and I can't find any music/movies on there so I'm not sure why it is still reading as though it is full. I thought it was just a fluke so I tried to copy the folder again and it still said the drive was too full.

I also emptied the trash, unmounted both drives, shut them both off, then back on and let them mount. Still, no change in the status of the sizes.

 

[Dimwhit]

Download WhatSize or GrandPerspective and see what they say is using up hard drive space.

 

[GoCubsGo]

WhatSize only scans 20 gb of data under the "free" trial. Since I don't think I need it I'm trying GrandPerspective. By the way that's one ugly app!
Basically it said what I thought it would. 44 gb free just like before I deleted the iTunes library and still that's not quite showing.

 

[vanmacguy]

Hi Jessica.

A better application for this is called Disk Inventory X.

It's free unlimited download and once you let it run against a volume it will show graphically what is taking up the space. It's a nice application I use it all the time.

How big is your iTunes folder?

 

[GoCubsGo]

Actually I had found it. Somehow it sank itself into a sub folder that was there from an old backup I made of my laptop's hard drive. Now I'm back in action.