How to sing 'Forget You' to iTunes song

Q I have close to 50,000 songs in my iTunes music collection. Besides organizing them in iTunes, I keep them stored in alphabetical order in two Windows file folders I created.

Now I'd like to permanently delete some of that music. But when I delete a song in iTunes, sending it to the Windows recycle bin, the song still remains in one of the alphabetized file folders. It was only deleted from iTunes' original file folder.

What do you suggest?

ANDY SELEZNOV, TUCSON, ARIZ.

A iTunes looks for songs in the Windows location from which they were originally imported. So it's not surprising that the song you deleted from iTunes is still in the file folder you created later.

There are two approaches you can take.

If a second copy of the song is still in the iTunes library, then you must have imported it to iTunes twice, once from the old folder and once from a new one. Try deleting this second song copy from the iTunes library.

If you still have problems, you can download software at tinyurl.com/4zpf85d that cleans up iTunes by correcting song information tags, finding artwork, eliminating duplicate songs and finding where songs are stored.

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