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Some times when I delete songs from iTunes it does not ask me if I also want to delete it from the hard drive.

As a result I have a bunch of songs that are taking up space in my hard drive that are not in iTunes.

I have over 3000 files, is there an automated way to find files on the hard drive that are NOT in iTunes? I want to delete them so that they are not taking up space.

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You can change the iTunes Media folder location (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced) and then use the Consolidate files function (File -> Library -> Organise Library).

This will copy everything to the new location without the orphans and you can then delete the old one.

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  • If, like me, you want to keep some of those orphans (files recovered after accidental deletion), you can use a diff utility (EG Beyond Compare) between the new folder and the old to identify them.
    – Brock Adams
    Jun 20, 2015 at 7:55
  • WARNING: If you have: multiple iTunes profiles on your machine, or batch files, or use utilities like itunes_open_library.exe or custom Python scripts, etc.; this approach will: scramble your libraries together and trash your carefully organized folders and mandate edits and reworks of all your batch files, scripts, and utilities.
    – Brock Adams
    Jun 23, 2015 at 23:38
  • I kinda think that if you are the type of person who has any of that stuff, you probably won't be needing to use this method in the first place!
    – Shevek
    Jun 24, 2015 at 11:35

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