Advice needed from Mac experts!

[Claire]

Keith I've just found a folder in music called itunes music and it contains 43 GB of stuff!! I wonder how it got so big!

[Keith]

Keith I've just found a folder in music called itunes music and it contains 43 GB of stuff!! I wonder how it got so big!

If you're not very very careful, everything gets put on multiple times!

The way it works is, you copy a music file onto your machine and tell itunes to find it but then it tends to copy it into its own folder itunes music which it keeps organised. All of a sudden you now have two copies! Add to that duplicates and all the rest and suddenly loads of space gone

[Claire]

So far I've freed up 15 GB just by getting Poppy to clear out stuff she doesn't need anymore.

[Keith]

So far I've freed up 15 GB just by getting Poppy to clear out stuff she doesn't need anymore.

YAYAYAYAYA *excellent* 15GB is a fair bit of breathing room! phew!

[josh.p.]

LOL- Thats the only flaw of itunes- it just stores everything a multitude of times!

[Claire]

It seems I've got masses of images that have multiplied! I'm wondering if every time I connect my camera to the laptop it dumps every photo into images again as I don't delete them from my camera.

[Keith]

It seems I've got masses of images that have multiplied! I'm wondering if every time I connect my camera to the laptop it dumps every photo into images again as I don't delete them from my camera.

yep! almost certainly if you dont delete the from the camera

[josh.p.]

Do you not use Iphoto? It makes it so easy- connect your cam, it pops up, you select and click import and then it will tell you if you are importing the same pics again- its probably my fave app!

[Claire]

For some reason Josh it imports them into Pictures. Can I change a setting to make sure they go into iPhoto?

[josh.p.]

ermm.. ask keith LOL I'm not a mac-expert... mine just works! LOL