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You've probably peeked into your iTunes folder (It's located in your user folder: Music: iTunes) and may have been perplexed by all the files and folders it contains, wondering what they're all for. Here's an overview of the files and folders that iTunes uses, both in the iTunes folder and elsewhere.

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