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IMac Memory is filling up - Questions

My iMac has about 100 GB left for music in iTunes. Everything is backed up in an external HD but now what? It does not appear that the album artwork is in the External HD first off. Second, the Ext. HD lists all the music by individual tracks, not albums. Assuming I want to add more music and the External HD is the only place left to put it - how do I pull up an album (CD) and the artwork? Does the artwork stay in iTunes? Maybe somebody has already been here???
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theraiguy
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Be patient. You may end up with duplicates, but you'll have everything in one place. It's good to have a second drive for backup. I've got about 750GB of music in my computer library and thoroughly enjoy the convenience. Feel free to shoot me an email if you come across issues.
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Epilogue: The process is underway - the complete iTunes library has been transferred to the Ext. HD and, as I write, I am emptying the "Trash" that now contains the old iTunes Music folder. Everything seems to be working OK. One unexpected outcome was that the "old" music folder held 344 GBs of data but when I copied it into the External HD INCLUDING ARTWORK, the Gigs jumped to 649 GB. I can only presume that the artwork is responsible for that jump in memory usage. For those that need explicit instructions on how to make this happen - I found an article on-line Titled "Moving your iTunes Music Folder" - it gave me step by step instructions.

Thanks again Theraiguy - I may take you up on the email offer if there is a hitch.
theraiguy
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Check your duplicates. The artwork shouldn't double the amount of space. iTunes likely copied your music folder to the external, which already held the backup files.
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