Removing orphaned iTunes songs from hard drive

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.