How will deleting my songs affect my Itunes?

Question

I'm trying to clear up some space on my computer and my collection of mp3s and others are taking up the most space. I made copies of all my songs on some CDs but how will deleting all my songs affect my Itunes collection?

Will they delete from that too? And will they show up on my ipod even though the file is gone?? I don't really wanna do it if they'll disappear from itunes and my ipod too.

If someone could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Answer 1

If you delete the file from your computer,it will be removed from your iPod if you do a full sync.

To avoid this, you'll need to turn off auto-sync and then manually sync (by checking/unchecking).

In general, don't delete music (or video) files from your computer if you plan on syncing to the iPod.

Answer 2

If the file is gone those songs won't be on your ipod ionce it starts updaing it. I wouldn't delete thm if I were you. Try moving the songs on another catogory in itunes.
I hope I helped!
Good luck!