Mac OS X Leopard Hard Drive Issue

Hi guys, I've run into another small problem. Right now i ahve the 120GB model of the Macbook, so I personally want to be as conservative as possible so I dont waste any disc space. I put everything in the trash once I dont used it, and clean up my itunes library. THe problem is that on the itunes library, it says i ahve 2.86 GB of music, but in my music folder, theres at least 10 Gbs. I dont know if it is because of the podcasts, btu last i checked there were only 2 Gbs, and in no way would 3(music)+2(podcasts)=10gbs. I've tried deleting a lot of things, but the more i delete, the less sapce in the hard drive i ahve. I am kind of in a dilemma here since i've had this issue with my last laptop on Windows, but never thought it would come back and haunt me on a Mac. This is probably a problem with the Harddrive, I am not sure, but I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this problem and also, if they could teach me how to defragment a computer in Leopard and do a error check like on windows where it makes the system faster, and also, fix my disc space issues. Thank you for all your time!

P.S. Im sorry about the last 2 posts, but the server timed out on me or something and there was really something wrong with my computer or something sorry about that guys!

 

Maybe your post topic should be changed, what does this have to do with Leopard?

 

The problems within Leopard, and I guess that indicates that Im using Leopard so people will know how to hlep me. Sorry about the confusion

 

It seems like there are files in your iTunes Music Folder that are not being imported into iTunes. Maybe incompatible videos or WMA music files?

Maybe the best solution is to spend some time to search your iTunes Music Folder. Are there any files that are not orgnized into Folders? That way you don't delete anything you would regret later.

You could look at Folder for really large sizes. I would use keyboard shortcuts to expediate the process. In Finder, View the iTunes Music Folder as a List and select the first Folder at the top. Press Command (Open-Apple) + I. Look at the size, then press Command + W. Press the down arrow and repeat the process.

When you browse your Library in iTunes does anything appear to be missing? If you're absolutely sure nothing is missing you can create a new Folder on your Desktop, select all the files in iTunes and drag them to the new Folder. Then Delete everything from iTunes and the contents of your iTunes Music Folder and replace it with the content of the new Folder.

 

But then how can you defrag a harddrive?

 

There is no need to defragment a hard drive with OS X. You can use Disk Utility to Repair the Disk. To do this you will need to boot from the Leopard Install DVD by holding Option during Startup. Click the next arrow and choose Utilities > Disk Utility from the Menu Bar. Select your OS X partition and click Repair Disk. You can also Repair Permissions this way. Or you can Repair Permissions from within OS X (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility).

Please read the Mac Switcher's Guide. It's really really good!

 

ok thanks for the help! =D