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Digest #1270
| 1a Too many duplicates by "Steve Varley" eutah10 1b Re: Too many duplicates by "Ryan Waldon" ryanwaldon2002 1c Re: Too many duplicates by "James" jamesl33511 |
Tue Jul 3, 2012 9:21 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Steve Varley" eutah10
Thanks for the responses. Yes, it's a Mac. I have maybe 15000 tunes but I
think i'ts probably about 4000 without dupes. It takes up a lot of space
but the biggest thing to me is if I delete 1 or 3 when I see them I could
be deleting the one I placed in a Playlist. Never know which ones you can
delete.
It seems like I could put them all in one file and when I add them it would
ask me if I wanted to add the duplicate. But that doesn't seem to work out.
think i'ts probably about 4000 without dupes. It takes up a lot of space
but the biggest thing to me is if I delete 1 or 3 when I see them I could
be deleting the one I placed in a Playlist. Never know which ones you can
delete.
It seems like I could put them all in one file and when I add them it would
ask me if I wanted to add the duplicate. But that doesn't seem to work out.
Tue Jul 3, 2012 9:27 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Ryan Waldon" ryanwaldon2002
I would recommend trying this app from Doug's Scripts:
< http://dougscripts.com/apps/dupinapp.php >
It's $15.00
--ryan
Sent from my Apple Mac mini
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Steve Varley <eutah10@gmail.com > wrote:
> **
>
>
> Thanks for the responses. Yes, it's a Mac. I have maybe 15000 tunes but
> I think i'ts probably about 4000 without dupes. It takes up a lot of space
> but the biggest thing to me is if I delete 1 or 3 when I see them I could
> be deleting the one I placed in a Playlist. Never know which ones you can
> delete.
>
> It seems like I could put them all in one file and when I add them it
> would ask me if I wanted to add the duplicate. But that doesn't seem to
> work out.
>
>
>
< http://dougscripts.
It's $15.00
--ryan
Sent from my Apple Mac mini
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Steve Varley <eutah10@gmail.
> **
>
>
> Thanks for the responses. Yes, it's a Mac. I have maybe 15000 tunes but
> I think i'ts probably about 4000 without dupes. It takes up a lot of space
> but the biggest thing to me is if I delete 1 or 3 when I see them I could
> be deleting the one I placed in a Playlist. Never know which ones you can
> delete.
>
> It seems like I could put them all in one file and when I add them it
> would ask me if I wanted to add the duplicate. But that doesn't seem to
> work out.
>
>
>
Tue Jul 3, 2012 9:49 am (PDT) . Posted by: "James" jamesl33511
I have a major problem with duplicates too; if you find a good solution
please let us know. I have multiple copies of all my music on backup
files or external drive[s] and not too long ago I had to reinstall
Itunes and it picked up duplicates on every song. There were 3 or 4
copies of every song and some had over a dozen. I know I have the
original songs in some cases on multiple cd's, such as the original,
then "his best" and still later "golden oldies"; and I've copied all of
these cd's to my pc then saved them to multiple places.
The only way I know to get rid of copies is to click "show duplicates"
then highlight the duplicates and hit delete. With over 3000 originals
that's a major PITA. It takes me hours to complete.
In Vista it appears my Itunes are located a little differently:
C:\users\user[me]\music\Itunes\Itunes media\music\artist\song. Again,
if you figure it out please let me know.
BTW, I'm backing up the Itunes media/music folder now but I wonder if
that will capture my playlists too? What is the preferred way to backup
Itunes?
Thanks,
James
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> Mon Jul 2, 2012 9:15 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Steve" eutah10
> <mailto:eutah10@gmail.com ?Subject=%20Re%3A%20Too%20many%20duplicates>
> I have many duplicates in itunes and that creates problems. Is there a
> way to get all my music into itunes without the duplicates? And still
> be sure I have not left any out?
>
> Right now the music location is: /Users/my name/Music/iTunes/
> song name.mp3. But I have several locations I pull from plus the backups.
>
> Maybe there's a way to combine files without adding duplicates?
>
> Thank!
> Steve V.
please let us know. I have multiple copies of all my music on backup
files or external drive[s] and not too long ago I had to reinstall
Itunes and it picked up duplicates on every song. There were 3 or 4
copies of every song and some had over a dozen. I know I have the
original songs in some cases on multiple cd's, such as the original,
then "his best" and still later "golden oldies"; and I've copied all of
these cd's to my pc then saved them to multiple places.
The only way I know to get rid of copies is to click "show duplicates"
then highlight the duplicates and hit delete. With over 3000 originals
that's a major PITA. It takes me hours to complete.
In Vista it appears my Itunes are located a little differently:
C:\users\user[
if you figure it out please let me know.
BTW, I'm backing up the Itunes media/music folder now but I wonder if
that will capture my playlists too? What is the preferred way to backup
Itunes?
Thanks,
James
.
.
> Mon Jul 2, 2012 9:15 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Steve" eutah10
> <mailto:eutah10@gmail.
> I have many duplicates in itunes and that creates problems. Is there a
> way to get all my music into itunes without the duplicates? And still
> be sure I have not left any out?
>
> Right now the music location is: /Users/my name/Music/iTunes/
> song name.mp3. But I have several locations I pull from plus the backups.
>
> Maybe there's a way to combine files without adding duplicates?
>
> Thank!
> Steve V.
