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[Carl Makin]

On 10/04/2007, at 9:43 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Paul Brooks wrote:
>
>> Then I noticed iTunes had gone and duplicated every single blasted  
>> song and movie under its own directory tree, filled the disk and  
>> generally made a mess - not to mention requiring a RAM footprint  
>> and CPU cycles that would embarass an elephant while it was  
>> operating.
>
> iTunes and iPhoto rely on symbolic (or perhaps hard) links on Unix
> to spin their magic. The links allow multiple instances of files to
> exist in the file system without duplicating the file space.

ITunes doesn't use symlinks on MacOS X.  By default it is set to copy  
every file into an ITunes managed folder structure on both MacOS X  
and Windows, but that can be switched off.

There is a preference setting under the "advanced" tab that says  
"copy files to ITunes music folder when adding to library".  You can  
uncheck that and it will leave the files where they are and use them  
there.


Carl.