Any IT / Itunes Experts out there help me????

[Captain Crash]

Hi Guys/gals, have a problem which will probably be a simple fix for someone far more clued up than i am, i have a HP laptop running windows 7 64bit professional, it has a 320GB hard drive which is full !!, i can't for the life of me find what is taking up all this space. My problem being that i have converted some of my own dvd collection to use on my ipod, but i am now unsure what i can delete without making a pigs ear of itunes, don't know which files it uses in terms of it's library, don't want to delete a folder which then corrupts itunes as i've had this before, any help would be greatly appreciated

[challis349]

there is normally a specific folder named itunes mate

[Mark_T]

Try something like this to help figure out where the space is being used : [url=http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/]TreeSize Free - Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs[/url]

[kluson]

why don't you delete the movies you don't want from with iTunes?

-open i tunes then on the tab movies, just delete the movies you no longer want. If you decide you would rather keep the movies then just buy an external hard drive maybe 1TB and move the files to that, don't forget to tell Itunes where they are.

hope that helps

[Steve]

Is the machine a native Windows 7 installation, or has it been upgraded from a previous version of Windows?

If it's an upgrade then there may well be a huge backup of the previous version(s) of Windows which can take up a massive amount of drive space. If you're happy with W7, then the backup can be deleted. I've seen upgraded machines free up several hundred gigabytes of drive space doing this, with a little care of course.

You would have to have an extraordinary amount of data in your iTunes to clog up 320 gb. My iTunes has got 2306 songs in it (enough to run continuously for 7 days) and they only take up 14 gb.

[bulnose]

What software did u use to rip the dvds ? maybe its default folder has some rather large files in it, maybe if u look in there there are files to delete